diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index a9f72af..1285eaf 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -122,9 +122,9 @@ After you have installed ``la``, run the suite of unit tests::
     >>> import la
     >>> la.test()
     <snip>
-    Ran 2997 tests in 9.225s
+    Ran 2996 tests in 9.225s
     OK
-    <nose.result.TextTestResult run=2997 errors=0 failures=0>
+    <nose.result.TextTestResult run=2996 errors=0 failures=0>
     
 The ``la`` package contains C extensions that speed up common alignment
 operations such as adding two unaligned larrys. If the C extensions don't
diff --git a/la/tests/deflarry_test.py b/la/tests/deflarry_test.py
index 4476957..66eca2d 100644
--- a/la/tests/deflarry_test.py
+++ b/la/tests/deflarry_test.py
@@ -3529,29 +3529,6 @@ def test_vacuum8(self):
         assert_almost_equal(larv.x, larr.x)
         assert_(larv.label == larr.label)
  
-           
-def suite():
-    s = []
-    u = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase
-    s.append(u(Test_init))
-    s.append(u(Test_unary))
-    s.append(u(Test_binary))
-    s.append(u(Test_reduce))
-    s.append(u(Test_comparison)) 
-    s.append(u(Test_anyall))
-    s.append(u(Test_getset))
-    s.append(u(Test_label))
-    s.append(u(Test_calc))
-    s.append(u(Test_alignment))
-    s.append(u(Test_properties_01))      
-    return unittest.TestSuite(s)
-
-def run():
-    unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite())
-    
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    run()   
-
 # take test -----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # Make sure larry.take gives the same result as larry.__getitem__.
diff --git a/la/tests/io_test.py b/la/tests/io_test.py
index b5dc3b7..ec25634 100644
--- a/la/tests/io_test.py
+++ b/la/tests/io_test.py
@@ -95,19 +95,6 @@ def test_io_6(self):
         actual = io['desired'][:]
         assert_larry_equal(actual, desired)
         
-def testsuite():
-    s = []
-    u = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase
-    s.append(u(Test_io))
-    return unittest.TestSuite(s)
-
-def run():   
-    suite = testsuite()
-    unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite)
-    
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    run()           
-        
 # nose tests ----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 def datetime_test():
diff --git a/la/tests/missing_test.py b/la/tests/missing_test.py
index 48be599..d59ba8a 100644
--- a/la/tests/missing_test.py
+++ b/la/tests/missing_test.py
@@ -198,19 +198,3 @@ def test_ismissing_8a(self):
     def test_ismissing_9a(self):
         "afunc.ismissing_9a"
         assert_equal(ismissing(np.array([True])), np.array([False])) 
-
-# Unit tests ----------------------------------------------------------------        
-    
-def suite():
-
-    unit = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase
-    s = []
-    s.append(unit(Test_nans)) 
-    s.append(unit(Test_missing_marker))
-    s.append(unit(Test_ismissing))             
-    return unittest.TestSuite(s)
-
-def run():   
-    suite = testsuite()
-    unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite)
-
diff --git a/la/util/tests/misc_test.py b/la/util/tests/misc_test.py
index e7e7e57..039f6b5 100644
--- a/la/util/tests/misc_test.py
+++ b/la/util/tests/misc_test.py
@@ -38,17 +38,3 @@ def test_isa():
         yield assert_equal, isfloat(key), value[1], msg
         msg = '\nisscalar(' + str(key) + ')'
         yield assert_equal, isscalar(key), (value[0] or value[1]), msg
-                        
-def suite():
-    s = []
-    u = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase
-    s.append(u(Test_misc))
-    return unittest.TestSuite(s)
-
-def run():   
-    suite = suite()
-    unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite)
-    
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    run()           
-