diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py b/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
index 73b0228ea8e3b50..1830d0b28688d55 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
@@ -644,7 +644,8 @@ def test_urlsplit_normalization(self):
         for scheme in [u"http", u"https", u"ftp"]:
             for c in denorm_chars:
                 url = u"{}://netloc{}false.netloc/path".format(scheme, c)
-                print "Checking %r" % url
+                if test_support.verbose:
+                    print "Checking %r" % url
                 with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
                     urlparse.urlsplit(url)