diff --git a/tests/test_verbose.py b/tests/test_verbose.py
index 99c4cb3..07a0c46 100644
--- a/tests/test_verbose.py
+++ b/tests/test_verbose.py
@@ -48,9 +48,6 @@ def test_VERBOSE(self):
         with io.StringIO() as buf, redirect_stdout(buf):
             VERBOSE(help)
             output = buf.getvalue()
-        import re
-        output = re.sub(r'\x1b\[[0-9;]*m', '', output)
-        print (output)
 
         assert "help" in output
         assert "hallo" in output
@@ -64,6 +61,10 @@ def test_not_VERBOSE(self):
         with io.StringIO() as buf, redirect_stdout(buf):
             VERBOSE(help)
             output = buf.getvalue()
+
+        import re
+        output = re.sub(r'\x1b\[[0-9;]*m', '', output)
+
         print (output)
         variables["verbose"] = 10