diff --git a/src/CBXML.py b/src/CBXML.py
index ff3367d..be7f626 100644
--- a/src/CBXML.py
+++ b/src/CBXML.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 Author: Brett G. Olivier
 Contact email: bgoli@users.sourceforge.net
-Last edit: $Author: bgoli $ ($Id: CBXML.py 660 2018-09-24 14:57:04Z bgoli $)
+Last edit: $Author: bgoli $ ($Id: CBXML.py 663 2018-09-25 13:04:39Z bgoli $)
 
 """
 ## gets rid of "invalid variable name" info
@@ -3111,7 +3111,7 @@ def sbml_readSBML3FBC(fname, work_dir=None, return_sbml_model=False, xoptions={}
 
     # check for file read errors
     if D.getNumErrors() > 0:
-        print('***\nDANGER: libSBML reports *{}* read errors, this indicates that this is an invalid SBML file. I will try to load it but cannot guarantee it\'s accuracy.\n***\n'.format(D.getNumErrors()))
+        print('***\nDANGER: libSBML reports *{}* read errors, this indicates that this is an invalid SBML file. I will try to load it but cannot guarantee its accuracy.\n***\n'.format(D.getNumErrors()))
         errors, warnings, others, DOCUMENT_VALID, MODEL_VALID = sbml_validateDocument(D, docread=True)
         if not DOCUMENT_VALID:
             raise RuntimeError("\nERROR: Validation has detected an invalid SBML document This is a fatal error.\n")
diff --git a/src/nosetests/__init__.py b/src/nosetests/__init__.py
index 5533dd6..12e0e0f 100644
--- a/src/nosetests/__init__.py
+++ b/src/nosetests/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
+# preparing for Python 3 port
+from __future__ import division, print_function
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+#from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import os, nose
+import cbmpy
+
 fDir = os.path.split(__file__)[0]
+#fDir = os.path.split(fDir)[0]
+print('TestBase: ', fDir)
 
 def run():
     cDir = os.getcwd()
@@ -8,4 +17,9 @@ def run():
     os.chdir(cDir)
     if res:
         print('\nAll tests passed.\n')
+    else:
+        print('\nPlease ignore the second test failure:\n\n\"ERROR: Failure: ImportError (No module named cbmpy)\"\n\nthis is a known glitch in the testing framework that is currently being worked on.\n')
 
+class TestBase:
+    def test_import(self):
+        import cbmpy