Index: Lib/distutils/tests/test_bdist_wininst.py
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--- Lib/distutils/tests/test_bdist_wininst.py.orig
+++ Lib/distutils/tests/test_bdist_wininst.py
@@ -5,11 +5,13 @@ import os
 from distutils.dist import Distribution
 from distutils.command.bdist_wininst import bdist_wininst
 from distutils.tests import support
+from distutils import log
 
 class BuildWinInstTestCase(support.TempdirManager,
                            unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_get_exe_bytes(self):
+        log.set_threshold(log.ERROR)
 
         # issue5731: command was broken on non-windows platforms
         # this test makes sure it works now for every platform