diff -r cf62fbf2171a Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py	Fri Nov 02 07:34:37 2012 +0100
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py	Wed Dec 19 18:15:49 2012 +0200
@@ -1252,7 +1252,7 @@
                               )
 
     def test_basic_and_digest_auth_handlers(self):
-        # HTTPDigestAuthHandler threw an exception if it couldn't handle a 40*
+        # HTTPDigestAuthHandler raised an exception if it couldn't handle a 40*
         # response (http://python.org/sf/1479302), where it should instead
         # return None to allow another handler (especially
         # HTTPBasicAuthHandler) to handle the response.
diff -r cf62fbf2171a Lib/test/test_winreg.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_winreg.py	Fri Nov 02 07:34:37 2012 +0100
+++ b/Lib/test/test_winreg.py	Wed Dec 19 18:15:49 2012 +0200
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@
 
     def test_long_key(self):
         # Issue2810, in 2.6 and 3.1 when the key name was exactly 256
-        # characters, EnumKey threw "WindowsError: More data is
+        # characters, EnumKey raised "WindowsError: More data is
         # available"
         name = 'x'*256
         try: