diff --git a/Lib/test/test_crypt.py b/Lib/test/test_crypt.py
index 08e6b613bdb..6fbb780c531 100755
--- a/Lib/test/test_crypt.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_crypt.py
@@ -2,5 +2,11 @@
 """Simple test script for cryptmodule.c
    Roger E. Masse
 """
+verbose = 0
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    verbose = 1
+    
 import crypt
-print 'Test encryption: ', crypt.crypt('mypassword', 'ab')
+c = crypt.crypt('mypassword', 'ab')
+if verbose:
+    print 'Test encryption: ', c