diff --git a/BROKEN_TESTS b/BROKEN_TESTS
index f45d333b9859..8814591f7304 100644
--- a/BROKEN_TESTS
+++ b/BROKEN_TESTS
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-test_descr -- can't pickle int objects?!?!
-test_pickletools -- ???
+test_pickletools -- Test probably needs to be fixed
 test_socket -- OverflowError: can't convert negative value to unsigned int
 test_sqlite -- ???
diff --git a/Modules/cPickle.c b/Modules/cPickle.c
index 4c55428817d8..98ab500aa32d 100644
--- a/Modules/cPickle.c
+++ b/Modules/cPickle.c
@@ -2191,7 +2191,7 @@ save(Picklerobject *self, PyObject *args, int pers_save)
 			goto finally;
 		}
 		break;
-        case 'l':
+        case 'i':
 		if (type == &PyLong_Type) {
 			res = save_long(self, args);
 			goto finally;