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>')