Python 3.4 has a new command line option to run Python in isolated mode: -I. IMO it would be nice to use this option to make the test suite more independant of the user configuration and the environment. Attached patch modifies the test.script_helper module to use the new -I option. Some tests rely on the current directory added to sys.path, so I had to add a python_isolated=False option to script_helper for these tests.