diff -r 130597102dac Lib/test/test_tcl.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_tcl.py	Tue Nov 19 15:56:05 2013 +0200
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tcl.py	Tue Nov 19 21:48:57 2013 +0200
@@ -268,6 +268,12 @@
         self.assertRaises(OverflowError, self.interp.call, 'set', '_', value)
 
 
+def setUpModule():
+    if support.verbose:
+        tcl = Tcl()
+        print('patchlevel =', tcl.call('info', 'patchlevel'))
+
+
 def test_main():
     support.run_unittest(TclTest, TkinterTest, BigmemTclTest)