diff --git a/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py b/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
index abf8b4998de..db7749a14f0 100644
--- a/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
+++ b/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
@@ -560,6 +560,7 @@ class CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler(SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher):
             self.handle_xmlrpc(request_text)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
+    print 'Running XML-RPC server on port 8000'
     server = SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000))
     server.register_function(pow)
     server.register_function(lambda x,y: x+y, 'add')