diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 3e7077ab2..8e9684826 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -69,6 +69,6 @@ script:
     - make $MAKEJOBS $GOAL || ( echo "Build failure. Verbose build follows." && make $GOAL V=1 ; false )
     - export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/depends/$HOST/lib
     - if [ "$RUN_TESTS" = "true" ]; then make check; fi
-    - if [ "$RUN_TESTS" = "true" ]; then qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.sh; fi
+    - if [ "$RUN_TESTS" = "true" ]; then qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py; fi
 after_script:
     - if [ "$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST" != "false" ]; then (echo "Upload goes here. Something like: scp -r $BASE_OUTDIR server" || echo "upload failed"); fi
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index dfde0d43e..8a7140398 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ endif
 
 dist_noinst_SCRIPTS = autogen.sh
 
-EXTRA_DIST = $(top_srcdir)/share/genbuild.sh qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.sh qa/rpc-tests $(DIST_DOCS) $(WINDOWS_PACKAGING) $(OSX_PACKAGING)
+EXTRA_DIST = $(top_srcdir)/share/genbuild.sh qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py qa/pull-tester/tests_config.py qa/rpc-tests $(DIST_DOCS) $(WINDOWS_PACKAGING) $(OSX_PACKAGING)
 
 CLEANFILES = $(OSX_DMG) $(BITCOIN_WIN_INSTALLER)
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ff2c7ab4e..9a1029e79 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -899,7 +899,8 @@ AC_SUBST(MINIUPNPC_CPPFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(MINIUPNPC_LIBS)
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile src/Makefile share/setup.nsi share/qt/Info.plist src/test/buildenv.py])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([qa/pull-tester/run-bitcoind-for-test.sh],[chmod +x qa/pull-tester/run-bitcoind-for-test.sh])
-AC_CONFIG_FILES([qa/pull-tester/tests-config.sh],[chmod +x qa/pull-tester/tests-config.sh])
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([qa/pull-tester/tests_config.py],[chmod +x qa/pull-tester/tests_config.py])
+chmod +x qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py
 
 dnl boost's m4 checks do something really nasty: they export these vars. As a
 dnl result, they leak into secp256k1's configure and crazy things happen.
@@ -939,3 +940,12 @@ case $host in
      chmod 755 libtool
    ;;
 esac
+
+dnl Replace the BUILDDIR path with the correct Windows path if compiling on Native Windows
+case ${OS} in
+   *Windows*)
+     sed  's/BUILDDIR="\/\([[a-z]]\)/BUILDDIR="\1:/'  qa/pull-tester/tests_config.py > qa/pull-tester/tests_config-2.py
+     mv qa/pull-tester/tests_config-2.py qa/pull-tester/tests_config.py
+     chmod +x qa/pull-tester/tests_config.py
+   ;;
+esac
diff --git a/qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py b/qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..68c1c0471
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
+
+# Copyright (c) 2014 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+#
+# Run Regression Test Suite
+#
+
+import os
+import sys
+import subprocess
+import re
+from tests_config import *
+from sets import Set
+
+#If imported values are not defined then set to zero (or disabled)
+if not vars().has_key('ENABLE_WALLET'):
+    ENABLE_WALLET=0
+if not vars().has_key('ENABLE_BITCOIND'):
+    ENABLE_BITCOIND=0
+if not vars().has_key('ENABLE_UTILS'):
+    ENABLE_UTILS=0
+if not vars().has_key('ENABLE_ZMQ'):
+    ENABLE_ZMQ=0
+
+#Create a set to store arguments and create the passOn string
+opts = Set()
+passOn = ""
+p = re.compile("^--")
+for i in range(1,len(sys.argv)):
+    if (p.match(sys.argv[i]) or sys.argv[i] == "-h"):
+        passOn += " " + sys.argv[i]
+    else:
+        opts.add(sys.argv[i])
+
+#Set env vars
+buildDir = BUILDDIR
+os.environ["BITCOIND"] = buildDir + '/src/bitcoind' + EXEEXT
+os.environ["BITCOINCLI"] = buildDir + '/src/bitcoin-cli' + EXEEXT
+ 
+#Disable Windows tests by default
+if EXEEXT == ".exe" and "-win" not in opts:
+    print "Win tests currently disabled.  Use -win option to enable"
+    sys.exit(0)
+
+#Tests
+testScripts = [
+    'wallet.py',
+    'listtransactions.py',
+    'mempool_resurrect_test.py',
+    'txn_doublespend.py --mineblock',
+    'txn_clone.py',
+    'getchaintips.py',
+    'rawtransactions.py',
+    'rest.py',
+    'mempool_spendcoinbase.py',
+    'mempool_coinbase_spends.py',
+    'httpbasics.py',
+    'zapwallettxes.py',
+    'proxy_test.py',
+    'merkle_blocks.py',
+    'fundrawtransaction.py',
+    'signrawtransactions.py',
+    'walletbackup.py',
+    'nodehandling.py',
+    'reindex.py',
+    'decodescript.py',
+    'p2p-fullblocktest.py',
+]
+testScriptsExt = [
+    'bipdersig-p2p.py',
+    'bipdersig.py',
+    'getblocktemplate_longpoll.py',
+    'getblocktemplate_proposals.py',
+    'txn_doublespend.py',
+    'txn_clone.py --mineblock',
+    'pruning.py',
+    'forknotify.py',
+    'invalidateblock.py',
+    'keypool.py',
+    'receivedby.py',
+    'rpcbind_test.py',
+#   'script_test.py',
+    'smartfees.py',
+    'maxblocksinflight.py',
+    'invalidblockrequest.py',
+#    'forknotify.py',
+    'p2p-acceptblock.py',
+    'mempool_packages.py',
+]
+
+#Enable ZMQ tests
+if ENABLE_ZMQ == 1:
+    testScripts.append('zmq_test.py')
+
+if(ENABLE_WALLET == 1 and ENABLE_UTILS == 1 and ENABLE_BITCOIND == 1):
+    rpcTestDir = buildDir + '/qa/rpc-tests/'
+    #Run Tests
+    for i in range(len(testScripts)):
+       if (len(opts) == 0 or (len(opts) == 1 and "-win" in opts ) or '-extended' in opts 
+           or testScripts[i] in opts or  re.sub(".py$", "", testScripts[i]) in opts ):
+            print  "Running testscript " + testScripts[i] + "..." 
+            subprocess.call(rpcTestDir + testScripts[i] + " --srcdir " + buildDir + '/src ' + passOn,shell=True) 
+	    #exit if help is called so we print just one set of instructions
+            p = re.compile(" -h| --help")
+            if p.match(passOn):
+                sys.exit(0)
+
+    #Run Extended Tests
+    for i in range(len(testScriptsExt)):
+        if ('-extended' in opts or testScriptsExt[i] in opts 
+           or re.sub(".py$", "", testScriptsExt[i]) in opts):
+            print  "Running 2nd level testscript " + testScriptsExt[i] + "..." 
+            subprocess.call(rpcTestDir + testScriptsExt[i] + " --srcdir " + buildDir + '/src ' + passOn,shell=True) 
+else:
+    print "No rpc tests to run. Wallet, utils, and bitcoind must all be enabled"
diff --git a/qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.sh b/qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 7e1d2e8e5..000000000
--- a/qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-
-CURDIR=$(cd $(dirname "$0"); pwd)
-# Get BUILDDIR and REAL_BITCOIND
-. "${CURDIR}/tests-config.sh"
-
-export BITCOIND=${REAL_BITCOIND}
-export BITCOINCLI=${REAL_BITCOINCLI}
-
-if [ "x${EXEEXT}" = "x.exe" ]; then
-  echo "Win tests currently disabled"
-  exit 0
-fi
-
-#Run the tests
-
-testScripts=(
-    'wallet.py'
-    'listtransactions.py'
-    'mempool_resurrect_test.py'
-    'txn_doublespend.py --mineblock'
-    'txn_clone.py'
-    'getchaintips.py'
-    'rawtransactions.py'
-    'rest.py'
-    'mempool_spendcoinbase.py'
-    'mempool_coinbase_spends.py'
-    'httpbasics.py'
-    'zapwallettxes.py'
-    'proxy_test.py'
-    'merkle_blocks.py'
-    'fundrawtransaction.py'
-    'signrawtransactions.py'
-    'walletbackup.py'
-    'nodehandling.py'
-    'reindex.py'
-    'decodescript.py'
-    'p2p-fullblocktest.py'
-);
-testScriptsExt=(
-    'bipdersig-p2p.py'
-    'bipdersig.py'
-    'getblocktemplate_longpoll.py'
-    'getblocktemplate_proposals.py'
-    'txn_doublespend.py'
-    'txn_clone.py --mineblock'
-    'pruning.py'
-    'forknotify.py'
-    'invalidateblock.py'
-    'keypool.py'
-    'receivedby.py'
-    'rpcbind_test.py'
-#   'script_test.py'
-    'smartfees.py'
-    'maxblocksinflight.py'
-    'invalidblockrequest.py'
-#    'forknotify.py'
-    'p2p-acceptblock.py'
-    'mempool_packages.py'
-);
-
-if [ "x$ENABLE_ZMQ" = "x1" ]; then
-  testScripts+=('zmq_test.py')
-fi
-
-extArg="-extended"
-passOn=${@#$extArg}
-
-if [ "x${ENABLE_BITCOIND}${ENABLE_UTILS}${ENABLE_WALLET}" = "x111" ]; then
-    for (( i = 0; i < ${#testScripts[@]}; i++ ))
-    do
-        if [ -z "$1" ] || [ "${1:0:1}" == "-" ] || [ "$1" == "${testScripts[$i]}" ] || [ "$1.py" == "${testScripts[$i]}" ]
-        then
-            echo -e "Running testscript \033[1m${testScripts[$i]}...\033[0m"
-            ${BUILDDIR}/qa/rpc-tests/${testScripts[$i]} --srcdir "${BUILDDIR}/src" ${passOn}
-        fi
-    done
-    for (( i = 0; i < ${#testScriptsExt[@]}; i++ ))
-    do
-        if [ "$1" == $extArg ] || [ "$1" == "${testScriptsExt[$i]}" ] || [ "$1.py" == "${testScriptsExt[$i]}" ]
-        then
-            echo -e "Running \033[1m2nd level\033[0m testscript \033[1m${testScriptsExt[$i]}...\033[0m"
-            ${BUILDDIR}/qa/rpc-tests/${testScriptsExt[$i]} --srcdir "${BUILDDIR}/src" ${passOn}
-        fi
-    done
-else
-  echo "No rpc tests to run. Wallet, utils, and bitcoind must all be enabled"
-fi
diff --git a/qa/pull-tester/tests-config.sh.in b/qa/pull-tester/tests_config.py.in
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
similarity index 80%
rename from qa/pull-tester/tests-config.sh.in
rename to qa/pull-tester/tests_config.py.in
index e881a9511..937b4231f
--- a/qa/pull-tester/tests-config.sh.in
+++ b/qa/pull-tester/tests_config.py.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 # Copyright (c) 2013-2014 The Bitcoin Core developers
 # Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
 # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
@@ -12,6 +12,4 @@ EXEEXT="@EXEEXT@"
 @BUILD_BITCOIND_TRUE@ENABLE_BITCOIND=1
 @ENABLE_ZMQ_TRUE@ENABLE_ZMQ=1
 
-REAL_BITCOIND="$BUILDDIR/src/bitcoind${EXEEXT}"
-REAL_BITCOINCLI="$BUILDDIR/src/bitcoin-cli${EXEEXT}"
 
diff --git a/qa/rpc-tests/README.md b/qa/rpc-tests/README.md
index c6d172128..3391ee03a 100644
--- a/qa/rpc-tests/README.md
+++ b/qa/rpc-tests/README.md
@@ -37,9 +37,13 @@ Helper functions for creating blocks and transactions.
 Notes
 =====
 
-You can run a single test by calling `qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.sh <testname>`.
+You can run any single test by calling qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py <testname>
 
-Run all possible tests with `qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.sh -extended`.
+Or you can run any combination of tests by calling `qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py <testname1> <testname2> <testname3> ...`
+
+Run the regression test suite with `qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py'
+
+Run all possible tests with `qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py -extended`
 
 Possible options:
 
@@ -53,7 +57,7 @@ Possible options:
   --tracerpc       Print out all RPC calls as they are made
 ```
 
-If you set the environment variable `PYTHON_DEBUG=1` you will get some debug output (example: `PYTHON_DEBUG=1 qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.sh wallet`). 
+If you set the environment variable `PYTHON_DEBUG=1` you will get some debug output (example: `PYTHON_DEBUG=1 qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py wallet`). 
 
 A 200-block -regtest blockchain and wallets for four nodes
 is created the first time a regression test is run and