diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 98d21127..38713fe8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Sep 17 22:06:11 CEST 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* python/libxml.c: use stderr and not stdout for default errors
+	  in python environment bug #122552
+
 Wed Sep 17 21:33:57 CEST 2003 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* parserInternals.c: small fix from Rob Richards for input filename
diff --git a/python/libxml.c b/python/libxml.c
index 5edc0396..f323d81d 100644
--- a/python/libxml.c
+++ b/python/libxml.c
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ pythonExternalEntityLoader(const char *URL, const char *ID,
 	Py_XDECREF(ctxtobj);
 #ifdef DEBUG_LOADER
 	printf("pythonExternalEntityLoader: result ");
-	PyObject_Print(ret, stdout, 0);
+	PyObject_Print(ret, stderr, 0);
 	printf("\n");
 #endif
 
@@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@ libxml_xmlErrorFuncHandler(ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED void *ctx, const char *msg,
 
     if (libxml_xmlPythonErrorFuncHandler == NULL) {
         va_start(ap, msg);
-        vfprintf(stdout, msg, ap);
+        vfprintf(stderr, msg, ap);
         va_end(ap);
     } else {
         va_start(ap, msg);