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authorNick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>2013-07-29 07:51:16 (GMT)
committerNick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>2013-07-29 07:51:16 (GMT)
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Third attempt to fix #15415 on Windows
With help from jkloth on IRC, so it will hopefully work this time :)
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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_startfile.py12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_startfile.py b/Lib/test/test_startfile.py
index 68e35b3..43abf9b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_startfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_startfile.py
@@ -21,12 +21,14 @@ class TestCase(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertRaises(OSError, startfile, "nonexisting.vbs")
def test_empty(self):
- # startfile is a little odd when it comes to handling absolute
- # paths, so we briefly switch to the main test directory
- # and use a relative path
- with support.change_cwd(support.TEST_HOME):
- empty = "empty.vbs"
+ # We need to make sure the child process starts in a directory
+ # we're not about to delete. If we're running under -j, that
+ # means the test harness provided directory isn't a safe option.
+ # See http://bugs.python.org/issue15526 for more details
+ with support.change_cwd(path.dirname(sys.executable)):
+ empty = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), "empty.vbs")
startfile(empty)
+ startfile(empty, "open")
def test_main():
support.run_unittest(TestCase)