diff --git a/tests/inspectdb/tests.py b/tests/inspectdb/tests.py
index 2dc65eb309c..13a0d291070 100644
--- a/tests/inspectdb/tests.py
+++ b/tests/inspectdb/tests.py
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ class InspectDBTestCase(TestCase):
         call_command('inspectdb', 'inspectdb_uniquetogether', stdout=out)
         output = out.getvalue()
         self.assertIn("    unique_together = (('", output)
-        unique_together_match = re.findall(self.unique_re, output)
+        unique_together_match = self.unique_re.findall(output)
         # There should be one unique_together tuple.
         self.assertEqual(len(unique_together_match), 1)
         fields = unique_together_match[0]
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ class InspectDBTestCase(TestCase):
             )
             output = out.getvalue()
             self.assertIn('# A unique constraint could not be introspected.', output)
-            self.assertEqual(re.findall(self.unique_re, output), ["('id', 'people_unique')"])
+            self.assertEqual(self.unique_re.findall(output), ["('id', 'people_unique')"])
         finally:
             with connection.cursor() as c:
                 c.execute('DROP INDEX Findex')