diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index 4f4196c8213..58d6e840dad 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -212,8 +212,7 @@ def __init__(self): self.seq = [7, u'hello', 123L]
 test('splitlines', u"abc\ndef\r\nghi\n", [u'abc', u'def', u'ghi'])
 test('splitlines', u"abc\ndef\r\nghi\n\r", [u'abc', u'def', u'ghi', u''])
 test('splitlines', u"\nabc\ndef\r\nghi\n\r", [u'', u'abc', u'def', u'ghi', u''])
-test('splitlines', u"\nabc\ndef\r\nghi\n\r", [u'', u'abc\012def\015\012ghi\012\015'], 1)
-test('splitlines', u"\nabc\ndef\r\nghi\n\r", [u'', u'abc', u'def\015\012ghi\012\015'], 2)
+test('splitlines', u"\nabc\ndef\r\nghi\n\r", [u'\n', u'abc\n', u'def\r\n', u'ghi\n', u'\r'], 1)
 
 test('translate', u"abababc", u'bbbc', {ord('a'):None})
 test('translate', u"abababc", u'iiic', {ord('a'):None, ord('b'):ord('i')})