diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index a1f237d..b4c229a 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -404,6 +404,8 @@
     if verbose2 and bad:
         print "Re-running failed tests in verbose mode"
         for test in bad:
+            print "Re-running test %r in verbose mode" % test
+            sys.stdout.flush()
             try:
                 test_support.verbose = 1
                 ok = runtest(test, generate, 1, quiet, testdir,