test of the nis module

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_nis.py b/Lib/test/test_nis.py
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+import nis
+
+verbose = 0
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    verbose = 1
+
+maps = nis.maps()
+for nismap in maps:
+    if verbose:
+       print nismap
+    mapping = nis.cat(nismap)
+    for k, v in mapping.items():
+       if verbose:
+           print '    ', k, v
+       if not k:
+           continue
+       if nis.match(k, nismap) <> v:
+           print "NIS match failed for key `%s' in map `%s'" % (k, nismap)
+