diff --git a/Lib/test/.ruff.toml b/Lib/test/.ruff.toml
index 08bd5c8a87ee21..0afa0fe36b0ce4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/.ruff.toml
+++ b/Lib/test/.ruff.toml
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ select = [
     "F811",  # Redefinition of unused variable (useful for finding test methods with the same name)
 ]
 extend-exclude = [
+    # Excluded (these aren't actually executed, they're just "data files")
+    "tokenizedata/*.py",
     # Failed to lint
-    "badsyntax_pep3120.py",
     "encoded_modules/module_iso_8859_1.py",
     "encoded_modules/module_koi8_r.py",
     "test_source_encoding.py",
     # Failed to parse
-    "badsyntax_3131.py",
     "test_fstring.py",
     # TODO Fix: F811 Redefinition of unused name
     "test_buffer.py",
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_imp.py b/Lib/test/test_imp.py
index 4bb03908fc2bb2..4062afd7254870 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_imp.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_imp.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def test_find_module_encoding(self):
             with imp.find_module('module_' + mod, self.test_path)[0] as fd:
                 self.assertEqual(fd.encoding, encoding)
 
-        path = [os.path.dirname(__file__)]
+        path = [os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'tokenizedata')]
         with self.assertRaises(SyntaxError):
             imp.find_module('badsyntax_pep3120', path)
 
@@ -203,9 +203,11 @@ def test_issue5604(self):
             os_helper.rmtree('__pycache__')
 
     def test_issue9319(self):
-        path = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+        path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "tokenizedata")
         self.assertRaises(SyntaxError,
-                          imp.find_module, "badsyntax_pep3120", [path])
+                          imp.find_module,
+                          "badsyntax_pep3120",
+                          [path])
 
     def test_load_from_source(self):
         # Verify that the imp module can correctly load and find .py files
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_utf8source.py b/Lib/test/test_utf8source.py
index 97dced8a622889..c42b6aaaab579d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_utf8source.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_utf8source.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# This file is marked as binary in the CVS, to prevent MacCVS from recoding it.
-
 import unittest
 
 class PEP3120Test(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -16,7 +14,7 @@ def test_pep3120(self):
 
     def test_badsyntax(self):
         try:
-            import test.badsyntax_pep3120
+            import test.tokenizedata.badsyntax_pep3120
         except SyntaxError as msg:
             msg = str(msg).lower()
             self.assertTrue('utf-8' in msg)
diff --git a/Lib/test/badsyntax_pep3120.py b/Lib/test/tokenizedata/badsyntax_pep3120.py
similarity index 100%
rename from Lib/test/badsyntax_pep3120.py
rename to Lib/test/tokenizedata/badsyntax_pep3120.py