diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
index 4842428d6fd103..946ca4e07d5457 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
@@ -120,9 +120,7 @@ def test_interface(self):
         # Make sure object returned by urlopen() has the specified methods
         for attr in ("read", "readline", "readlines", "fileno",
                      "close", "info", "geturl", "getcode", "__iter__"):
-            self.assertTrue(hasattr(self.returned_obj, attr),
-                         "object returned by urlopen() lacks %s attribute" %
-                         attr)
+            self.assertHasAttr(self.returned_obj, attr)
 
     def test_read(self):
         self.assertEqual(self.text, self.returned_obj.read())
@@ -543,9 +541,7 @@ def test_interface(self):
         # Make sure object returned by urlopen() has the specified methods
         for attr in ("read", "readline", "readlines",
                      "close", "info", "geturl", "getcode", "__iter__"):
-            self.assertTrue(hasattr(self.text_url_resp, attr),
-                         "object returned by urlopen() lacks %s attribute" %
-                         attr)
+            self.assertHasAttr(self.text_url_resp, attr)
 
     def test_info(self):
         self.assertIsInstance(self.text_url_resp.info(), email.message.Message)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 44e6af8c6b6868..e56cd19160cc4b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -1197,15 +1197,15 @@ def test_errors(self):
         r = MockResponse(200, "OK", {}, "", url)
         newr = h.http_response(req, r)
         self.assertIs(r, newr)
-        self.assertFalse(hasattr(o, "proto"))  # o.error not called
+        self.assertNotHasAttr(o, "proto")  # o.error not called
         r = MockResponse(202, "Accepted", {}, "", url)
         newr = h.http_response(req, r)
         self.assertIs(r, newr)
-        self.assertFalse(hasattr(o, "proto"))  # o.error not called
+        self.assertNotHasAttr(o, "proto")  # o.error not called
         r = MockResponse(206, "Partial content", {}, "", url)
         newr = h.http_response(req, r)
         self.assertIs(r, newr)
-        self.assertFalse(hasattr(o, "proto"))  # o.error not called
+        self.assertNotHasAttr(o, "proto")  # o.error not called
         # anything else calls o.error (and MockOpener returns None, here)
         r = MockResponse(502, "Bad gateway", {}, "", url)
         self.assertIsNone(h.http_response(req, r))
@@ -1420,7 +1420,7 @@ def http_open(self, req):
                 response = opener.open('http://example.com/')
                 expected = b'GET ' + result + b' '
                 request = handler.last_buf
-                self.assertTrue(request.startswith(expected), repr(request))
+                self.assertStartsWith(request, expected)
 
     def test_redirect_head_request(self):
         from_url = "http://example.com/a.html"
@@ -1910,9 +1910,9 @@ def test_HTTPError_interface(self):
         url = code = fp = None
         hdrs = 'Content-Length: 42'
         err = urllib.error.HTTPError(url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
-        self.assertTrue(hasattr(err, 'reason'))
+        self.assertHasAttr(err, 'reason')
         self.assertEqual(err.reason, 'something bad happened')
-        self.assertTrue(hasattr(err, 'headers'))
+        self.assertHasAttr(err, 'headers')
         self.assertEqual(err.headers, 'Content-Length: 42')
         expected_errmsg = 'HTTP Error %s: %s' % (err.code, err.msg)
         self.assertEqual(str(err), expected_errmsg)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2_localnet.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2_localnet.py
index 9cb15d61c2ad4d..9186436183aae1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2_localnet.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2_localnet.py
@@ -606,8 +606,7 @@ def test_basic(self):
         handler = self.start_server()
         with urllib.request.urlopen("http://localhost:%s" % handler.port) as open_url:
             for attr in ("read", "close", "info", "geturl"):
-                self.assertTrue(hasattr(open_url, attr), "object returned from "
-                             "urlopen lacks the %s attribute" % attr)
+                self.assertHasAttr(open_url, attr)
             self.assertTrue(open_url.read(), "calling 'read' failed")
 
     def test_info(self):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllibnet.py b/Lib/test/test_urllibnet.py
index ce4e60e3a8011d..1a42c35dc49b9e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllibnet.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllibnet.py
@@ -71,8 +71,7 @@ def test_basic(self):
         with self.urlopen(self.url) as open_url:
             for attr in ("read", "readline", "readlines", "fileno", "close",
                          "info", "geturl"):
-                self.assertTrue(hasattr(open_url, attr), "object returned from "
-                                "urlopen lacks the %s attribute" % attr)
+                self.assertHasAttr(open_url, attr)
             self.assertTrue(open_url.read(), "calling 'read' failed")
 
     def test_readlines(self):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py b/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
index 4516bdea6adb19..56b2a743640568 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
@@ -1164,14 +1164,13 @@ def test_parse_fragments(self):
                 with self.subTest(url=url, function=func):
                     result = func(url, allow_fragments=False)
                     self.assertEqual(result.fragment, "")
-                    self.assertTrue(
-                            getattr(result, attr).endswith("#" + expected_frag))
+                    self.assertEndsWith(getattr(result, attr),
+                                        "#" + expected_frag)
                     self.assertEqual(func(url, "", False).fragment, "")
 
                     result = func(url, allow_fragments=True)
                     self.assertEqual(result.fragment, expected_frag)
-                    self.assertFalse(
-                            getattr(result, attr).endswith(expected_frag))
+                    self.assertNotEndsWith(getattr(result, attr), expected_frag)
                     self.assertEqual(func(url, "", True).fragment,
                                      expected_frag)
                     self.assertEqual(func(url).fragment, expected_frag)