diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 4411aae9ea..8220a3e01b 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ script:
   - cd tests && MICROPY_CPYTHON3=python3.3 ./run-tests
 
 after_failure:
+  - pwd
+  - echo 'test'
   - cat tests/memoryerror.py.exp
-  - cat tests/memoryerror.py.out
+  - (cat tests/memoryerror.py.out)
   - cd tests && for exp in *.exp; do testbase=$(basename $exp .exp); echo -e "\nFAILURE $testbase"; diff $testbase.exp $testbase.out; done
diff --git a/tests/basics/memoryerror.py b/tests/basics/memoryerror.py
index 1c93ec63ca..b4be420c31 100644
--- a/tests/basics/memoryerror.py
+++ b/tests/basics/memoryerror.py
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
 l = list(range(10000))
-try:
-    hex(1)
-except NameError:
-    print("NameError")
 try:
     100000000 * l
 except MemoryError: