diff --git a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py

index 06c9107..6c3f5a8 100644

--- a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py

+++ b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py

@@ -1149,14 +1149,11 @@ class MinidomTest(unittest.TestCase):

         # Verify that character decoding errors raise exceptions instead

         # of crashing

-        if pyexpat.version_info >= (2, 4, 5):

-            self.assertRaises(ExpatError, parseString,

-                    b'<fran\xe7ais></fran\xe7ais>')

-            self.assertRaises(ExpatError, parseString,

-                    b'<franais>Comment \xe7a va ? Tr\xe8s bien ?</franais>')

-        else:

-            self.assertRaises(UnicodeDecodeError, parseString,

-                b'<fran\xe7ais>Comment \xe7a va ? Tr\xe8s bien ?</fran\xe7ais>')

+

+        self.assertRaises(ExpatError, parseString,

+                b'<fran\xe7ais></fran\xe7ais>')

+        self.assertRaises(ExpatError, parseString,

+                b'<franais>Comment \xe7a va ? Tr\xe8s bien ?</franais>')

         doc.unlink()

@@ -1601,10 +1598,7 @@ class MinidomTest(unittest.TestCase):

         self.confirm(doc2.namespaceURI == xml.dom.EMPTY_NAMESPACE)

     def testExceptionOnSpacesInXMLNSValue(self):

-        if pyexpat.version_info >= (2, 4, 5):

-            context = self.assertRaisesRegex(ExpatError, 'syntax error')

-        else:

-            context = self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, 'Unsupported syntax')

+        context = self.assertRaisesRegex(ExpatError, 'syntax error')

         with context:

             parseString('<element xmlns:abc="http:abc.com/de f g/hi/j k"><abc:foo /></element>')