diff --git a/tests/data/test1683 b/tests/data/test1683
index 178b4054dc..581470dfc6 100644
--- a/tests/data/test1683
+++ b/tests/data/test1683
@@ -40,11 +40,9 @@ to stay the same
 </file>
 <precheck>
 perl -e 'for my $i ((1..100)) { my $filename = "%LOGDIR/exist%TESTNUMBER.$i"; open(FH, ">", $filename) or die $!; print FH "to stay the same" ; close(FH) }'
-# python3 -c 'for i in range(1, 101): open("%LOGDIR/exist%TESTNUMBER.{}".format(i), mode="w").write("to stay the same")'
 </precheck>
 <postcheck>
 perl -e 'for my $i ((1..100)) { my $filename = "%LOGDIR/exist%TESTNUMBER.$i"; open(FH, "<", $filename) or die $!; (<FH> eq "to stay the same" and <FH> eq "") or die "incorrect $filename" ; close(FH) }'
-# python3 -c 'for i in range(1, 101): assert open("%LOGDIR/exist%TESTNUMBER.{}".format(i), mode="r").read(17) == "to stay the same"'
 </postcheck>
 </client>