From 80e44f8737570c76c49f00594c818c37925d4748 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:57:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 76217 via svnmerge from
 svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r76217 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-11-11 21:55:07 +0100 (mer., 11 nov. 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
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---
 Lib/test/test_tarfile.py | 10 +++-------
 Misc/NEWS                |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index ee6811884a8..75cc0e73d62 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -27,11 +27,8 @@ except ImportError:
 def md5sum(data):
     return md5(data).hexdigest()
 
-def path(path):
-    return test_support.findfile(path)
-
-TEMPDIR = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), "test_tarfile_tmp")
-tarname = path("testtar.tar")
+TEMPDIR = os.path.abspath(test_support.TESTFN)
+tarname = test_support.findfile("testtar.tar")
 gzipname = os.path.join(TEMPDIR, "testtar.tar.gz")
 bz2name = os.path.join(TEMPDIR, "testtar.tar.bz2")
 tmpname = os.path.join(TEMPDIR, "tmp.tar")
@@ -1165,8 +1162,7 @@ class Bz2PartialReadTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
 
 def test_main():
-    if not os.path.exists(TEMPDIR):
-        os.mkdir(TEMPDIR)
+    os.makedirs(TEMPDIR)
 
     tests = [
         UstarReadTest,
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ae1be757293..2dd5f6eab3d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ Build
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
+
 - Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
   primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.