Issue #8890: Stop advertising an insecure use of /tmp in docs

12 files changed, 26 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/install/index.rst b/Doc/install/index.rst
index 52c75dc..c31b198 100644
--- a/Doc/install/index.rst
+++ b/Doc/install/index.rst
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ under the distribution root; if you're excessively concerned with speed, or want
 to keep the source tree pristine, you can change the build directory with the
 :option:`--build-base` option. For example::
 
-   python setup.py build --build-base=/tmp/pybuild/foo-1.0
+   python setup.py build --build-base=/path/to/pybuild/foo-1.0
 
 (Or you could do this permanently with a directive in your system or personal
 Distutils configuration file; see section :ref:`inst-config-files`.)  Normally, this
diff --git a/Doc/library/atexit.rst b/Doc/library/atexit.rst
index 7c76bab..01cf379 100644
--- a/Doc/library/atexit.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/atexit.rst
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ automatically when the program terminates without relying on the application
 making an explicit call into this module at termination. ::
 
    try:
-       _count = int(open("/tmp/counter").read())
+       _count = int(open("counter").read())
    except IOError:
        _count = 0
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ making an explicit call into this module at termination. ::
        _count = _count + n
 
    def savecounter():
-       open("/tmp/counter", "w").write("%d" % _count)
+       open("counter", "w").write("%d" % _count)
 
    import atexit
    atexit.register(savecounter)
diff --git a/Doc/library/cgi.rst b/Doc/library/cgi.rst
index 21509d1..478c95a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/cgi.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/cgi.rst
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ program to users of your script, you can have the reports saved to files
 instead, with code like this::
 
    import cgitb
-   cgitb.enable(display=0, logdir="/tmp")
+   cgitb.enable(display=0, logdir="/path/to/logdir")
 
 It's very helpful to use this feature during script development. The reports
 produced by :mod:`cgitb` provide information that can save you a lot of time in
diff --git a/Doc/library/imghdr.rst b/Doc/library/imghdr.rst
index 32ec9cf..9e89523 100644
--- a/Doc/library/imghdr.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/imghdr.rst
@@ -65,6 +65,6 @@ to this variable:
 Example::
 
    >>> import imghdr
-   >>> imghdr.what('/tmp/bass.gif')
+   >>> imghdr.what('bass.gif')
    'gif'
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/mailcap.rst b/Doc/library/mailcap.rst
index 4bb31bf..8115e42 100644
--- a/Doc/library/mailcap.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/mailcap.rst
@@ -71,6 +71,6 @@ An example usage::
 
    >>> import mailcap
    >>> d=mailcap.getcaps()
-   >>> mailcap.findmatch(d, 'video/mpeg', filename='/tmp/tmp1223')
-   ('xmpeg /tmp/tmp1223', {'view': 'xmpeg %s'})
+   >>> mailcap.findmatch(d, 'video/mpeg', filename='tmp1223')
+   ('xmpeg tmp1223', {'view': 'xmpeg %s'})
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/nntplib.rst b/Doc/library/nntplib.rst
index 247efb7..ef8b9b5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/nntplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/nntplib.rst
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ To post an article from a binary file (this assumes that the article has valid
 headers, and that you have right to post on the particular newsgroup)::
 
    >>> s = nntplib.NNTP('news.gmane.org')
-   >>> f = open('/tmp/article.txt', 'rb')
+   >>> f = open('article.txt', 'rb')
    >>> s.post(f)
    '240 Article posted successfully.'
    >>> s.quit()
diff --git a/Doc/library/optparse.rst b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
index 6a03edf..13395b6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/optparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
@@ -171,10 +171,10 @@ required option
 
 For example, consider this hypothetical command-line::
 
-   prog -v --report /tmp/report.txt foo bar
+   prog -v --report report.txt foo bar
 
 ``-v`` and ``--report`` are both options.  Assuming that ``--report``
-takes one argument, ``/tmp/report.txt`` is an option argument.  ``foo`` and
+takes one argument, ``report.txt`` is an option argument.  ``foo`` and
 ``bar`` are positional arguments.
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/pipes.rst b/Doc/library/pipes.rst
index 016a720..69e891d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pipes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pipes.rst
@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@ The :mod:`pipes` module defines the following class:
 Example::
 
    >>> import pipes
-   >>> t=pipes.Template()
+   >>> t = pipes.Template()
    >>> t.append('tr a-z A-Z', '--')
-   >>> f=t.open('/tmp/1', 'w')
+   >>> f = t.open('pipefile', 'w')
    >>> f.write('hello world')
    >>> f.close()
-   >>> open('/tmp/1').read()
+   >>> open('pipefile').read()
    'HELLO WORLD'
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
index 28edfcf..0d7baef 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ with the DB-API 2.0 specification described by :pep:`249`.
 
 To use the module, you must first create a :class:`Connection` object that
 represents the database.  Here the data will be stored in the
-:file:`/tmp/example` file::
+:file:`example.db` file::
 
    import sqlite3
-   conn = sqlite3.connect('/tmp/example')
+   conn = sqlite3.connect('example.db')
 
 You can also supply the special name ``:memory:`` to create a database in RAM.
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/trace.rst b/Doc/library/trace.rst
index c4ddc56..9b52f7d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/trace.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/trace.rst
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ A simple example demonstrating the use of the programmatic interface::
    # run the new command using the given tracer
    tracer.run('main()')
 
-   # make a report, placing output in /tmp
+   # make a report, placing output in the current directory
    r = tracer.results()
-   r.write_results(show_missing=True, coverdir="/tmp")
+   r.write_results(show_missing=True, coverdir=".")
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/zipimport.rst b/Doc/library/zipimport.rst
index 4f17092..60b2bd1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/zipimport.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/zipimport.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Typically, :data:`sys.path` is a list of directory names as strings.  This modul
 also allows an item of :data:`sys.path` to be a string naming a ZIP file archive.
 The ZIP archive can contain a subdirectory structure to support package imports,
 and a path within the archive can be specified to only import from a
-subdirectory.  For example, the path :file:`/tmp/example.zip/lib/` would only
+subdirectory.  For example, the path :file:`example.zip/lib/` would only
 import from the :file:`lib/` subdirectory within the archive.
 
 Any files may be present in the ZIP archive, but only files :file:`.py` and
@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ Examples
 Here is an example that imports a module from a ZIP archive - note that the
 :mod:`zipimport` module is not explicitly used. ::
 
-   $ unzip -l /tmp/example.zip
-   Archive:  /tmp/example.zip
+   $ unzip -l example.zip
+   Archive:  example.zip
      Length     Date   Time    Name
     --------    ----   ----    ----
         8467  11-26-02 22:30   jwzthreading.py
@@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ Here is an example that imports a module from a ZIP archive - note that the
    $ ./python
    Python 2.3 (#1, Aug 1 2003, 19:54:32)
    >>> import sys
-   >>> sys.path.insert(0, '/tmp/example.zip')  # Add .zip file to front of path
+   >>> sys.path.insert(0, 'example.zip')  # Add .zip file to front of path
    >>> import jwzthreading
    >>> jwzthreading.__file__
-   '/tmp/example.zip/jwzthreading.py'
+   'example.zip/jwzthreading.py'
 
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
index 1324359..c804e25 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
@@ -234,12 +234,12 @@ two arguments: ``open(filename, mode)``.
 
 ::
 
-   >>> f = open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
+   >>> f = open('workfile', 'w')
 
 .. XXX str(f) is <io.TextIOWrapper object at 0x82e8dc4>
 
    >>> print(f)
-   <open file '/tmp/workfile', mode 'w' at 80a0960>
+   <open file 'workfile', mode 'w' at 80a0960>
 
 The first argument is a string containing the filename.  The second argument is
 another string containing a few characters describing the way in which the file
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ of the file, 1 uses the current file position, and 2 uses the end of the file as
 the reference point.  *from_what* can be omitted and defaults to 0, using the
 beginning of the file as the reference point. ::
 
-   >>> f = open('/tmp/workfile', 'rb+')
+   >>> f = open('workfile', 'rb+')
    >>> f.write(b'0123456789abcdef')
    16
    >>> f.seek(5)     # Go to the 6th byte in the file
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ objects.  This has the advantage that the file is properly closed after its
 suite finishes, even if an exception is raised on the way.  It is also much
 shorter than writing equivalent :keyword:`try`\ -\ :keyword:`finally` blocks::
 
-    >>> with open('/tmp/workfile', 'r') as f:
+    >>> with open('workfile', 'r') as f:
     ...     read_data = f.read()
     >>> f.closed
     True