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

15 files changed, 32 insertions, 32 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/install/index.rst b/Doc/install/index.rst
index b1881b5..d3e8bab 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 6ac36b2..37d8d50 100644
--- a/Doc/library/atexit.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/atexit.rst
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ 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
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ 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/bsddb.rst b/Doc/library/bsddb.rst
index 0ed109d..74bcc0f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/bsddb.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/bsddb.rst
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ dictionaries.  In addition, they support the methods listed below.
 Example::
 
    >>> import bsddb
-   >>> db = bsddb.btopen('/tmp/spam.db', 'c')
+   >>> db = bsddb.btopen('spam.db', 'c')
    >>> for i in range(10): db['%d'%i] = '%d'% (i*i)
    ...
    >>> db['3']
diff --git a/Doc/library/cgi.rst b/Doc/library/cgi.rst
index 0240998..1b342c3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/cgi.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/cgi.rst
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ 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/compiler.rst b/Doc/library/compiler.rst
index 229bcb2..494902e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/compiler.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/compiler.rst
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ examples demonstrate how to use the :func:`parse` function, what the repr of an
 AST looks like, and how to access attributes of an AST node.
 
 The first module defines a single function.  Assume it is stored in
-:file:`/tmp/doublelib.py`.  ::
+:file:`doublelib.py`.  ::
 
    """This is an example module.
 
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ to create an instance from a repr, you must import the class names from the
 :mod:`compiler.ast` module. ::
 
    >>> import compiler
-   >>> mod = compiler.parseFile("/tmp/doublelib.py")
+   >>> mod = compiler.parseFile("doublelib.py")
    >>> mod
    Module('This is an example module.\n\nThis is the docstring.\n',
           Stmt([Function(None, 'double', ['x'], [], 0,
diff --git a/Doc/library/gzip.rst b/Doc/library/gzip.rst
index 465510f..ce11eec 100644
--- a/Doc/library/gzip.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/gzip.rst
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Examples of usage
 Example of how to read a compressed file::
 
    import gzip
-   f = gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'rb')
+   f = gzip.open('file.txt.gz', 'rb')
    file_content = f.read()
    f.close()
 
@@ -101,15 +101,15 @@ Example of how to create a compressed GZIP file::
 
    import gzip
    content = "Lots of content here"
-   f = gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb')
+   f = gzip.open('file.txt.gz', 'wb')
    f.write(content)
    f.close()
 
 Example of how to GZIP compress an existing file::
 
    import gzip
-   f_in = open('/home/joe/file.txt', 'rb')
-   f_out = gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb')
+   f_in = open('file.txt', 'rb')
+   f_out = gzip.open('file.txt.gz', 'wb')
    f_out.writelines(f_in)
    f_out.close()
    f_in.close()
diff --git a/Doc/library/imghdr.rst b/Doc/library/imghdr.rst
index 20f789f..24ab571 100644
--- a/Doc/library/imghdr.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/imghdr.rst
@@ -68,6 +68,6 @@ 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 5507211..b359509 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 acbb7a5..f87c2eb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/nntplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/nntplib.rst
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ To post an article from a file (this assumes that the article has valid
 headers, and that you have right to post on the particular newsgroup)::
 
    >>> s = NNTP('news.gmane.org')
-   >>> f = open('/tmp/article')
+   >>> f = open('articlefile')
    >>> s.post(f)
    '240 Article posted successfully.'
    >>> s.quit()
diff --git a/Doc/library/optparse.rst b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
index d5a35c2..417b3bb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/optparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
@@ -173,10 +173,10 @@ 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 c44c62e..6d7dff8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pipes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pipes.rst
@@ -24,12 +24,12 @@ shell for :func:`os.system` and :func:`os.popen` is required.
 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/posixfile.rst b/Doc/library/posixfile.rst
index c27e412..97ef800 100644
--- a/Doc/library/posixfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/posixfile.rst
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Examples::
 
    import posixfile
 
-   file = posixfile.open('/tmp/test', 'w')
+   file = posixfile.open('testfile', 'w')
    file.lock('w|')
    ...
    file.lock('u')
diff --git a/Doc/library/trace.rst b/Doc/library/trace.rst
index 9cd4996..29cb3e1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/trace.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/trace.rst
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ 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 af18d15..450f93a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/zipimport.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/zipimport.rst
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ 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
@@ -151,8 +151,8 @@ 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
@@ -161,8 +161,8 @@ 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 8da972b..2f08110 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst
@@ -236,9 +236,9 @@ arguments: ``open(filename, mode)``.
 
 ::
 
-   >>> f = open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')
+   >>> f = open('workfile', 'w')
    >>> 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
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ 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', 'r+')
+   >>> f = open('workfile', 'r+')
    >>> f.write('0123456789abcdef')
    >>> f.seek(5)     # Go to the 6th byte in the file
    >>> f.read(1)
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ 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