diff -r c2a13acd5e2b Lib/test/test_bytes.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py	Tue Nov 12 16:37:55 2013 +0100
+++ b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py	Thu Nov 14 11:46:11 2013 -0600
@@ -1303,34 +1303,6 @@
         self.assertIsNot(val, newval)
 
 
-class FixedStringTest(test.string_tests.BaseTest):
-
-    def fixtype(self, obj):
-        if isinstance(obj, str):
-            return obj.encode("utf-8")
-        return super().fixtype(obj)
-
-    # Currently the bytes containment testing uses a single integer
-    # value. This may not be the final design, but until then the
-    # bytes section with in a bytes containment not valid
-    def test_contains(self):
-        pass
-    def test_expandtabs(self):
-        pass
-    def test_upper(self):
-        pass
-    def test_lower(self):
-        pass
-
-class ByteArrayAsStringTest(FixedStringTest, unittest.TestCase):
-    type2test = bytearray
-    contains_bytes = True
-
-class BytesAsStringTest(FixedStringTest, unittest.TestCase):
-    type2test = bytes
-    contains_bytes = True
-
-
 class SubclassTest:
 
     def test_basic(self):