diff --git a/hgext/remotenames.py b/hgext/remotenames.py
--- a/hgext/remotenames.py
+++ b/hgext/remotenames.py
@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@
         for k, vtup in self.potentialentries.iteritems():
             yield (k, [bin(vtup[0])])
 
+    items = iteritems
+
 class remotenames(object):
     """
     This class encapsulates all the remotenames state. It also contains
diff --git a/mercurial/__init__.py b/mercurial/__init__.py
--- a/mercurial/__init__.py
+++ b/mercurial/__init__.py
@@ -225,7 +225,9 @@
 
                 # It changes iteritems/values to items/values as they are not
                 # present in Python 3 world.
-                elif fn in ('iteritems', 'itervalues'):
+                elif (fn in ('iteritems', 'itervalues') and
+                      not (tokens[i - 1].type == token.NAME and
+                           tokens[i - 1].string == 'def')):
                     yield t._replace(string=fn[4:])
                     continue
 
diff --git a/mercurial/branchmap.py b/mercurial/branchmap.py
--- a/mercurial/branchmap.py
+++ b/mercurial/branchmap.py
@@ -218,6 +218,8 @@
             self._verifybranch(k)
             yield k, v
 
+    items = iteritems
+
     def hasbranch(self, label):
         """ checks whether a branch of this name exists or not """
         self._verifybranch(label)