Use TESTFN instead of /etc/passwd and /dev/null as test files.

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_array.py b/Lib/test/test_array.py
index 7474a27207a278a8ea54c0e4e836a16238660085..832f192b0a5ac48ad1258545ad35cf72723274ed 100755 (executable)
--- a/Lib/test/test_array.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_array.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
    Roger E. Masse
 """
 import array
-from test_support import verbose
+from test_support import verbose, TESTFN, unlink
 
 def main():
 
@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@ def main():
     for type in (['b', 'h', 'i', 'l', 'f', 'd']):
        testtype(type, 1)
 
+    unlink(TESTFN)
+
 
 def testtype(type, example):
 
-    
        a = array.array(type)
        a.append(example)
        if verbose:
@@ -27,10 +28,14 @@ def testtype(type, example):
            a.byteswap()
 
        if a.typecode == 'c':
-           f = open('/etc/passwd', 'r')
+           f = open(TESTFN, "w")
+           f.write("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\n")
+           f.close()
+           f = open(TESTFN, 'r')
            a.fromfile(f, 10)
+           f.close()
            if verbose:
-               print 'char array with 10 bytes of /etc/passwd appended: ', a
+               print 'char array with 10 bytes of TESTFN appended: ', a
            a.fromlist(['a', 'b', 'c'])
            if verbose:
                print 'char array with list appended: ', a
@@ -38,8 +43,9 @@ def testtype(type, example):
        a.insert(0, example)
        if verbose:
            print 'array of %s after inserting another:' % a.typecode, a
-       f = open('/dev/null', 'w')
+       f = open(TESTFN, 'w')
        a.tofile(f)
+       f.close()
        a.tolist()
        a.tostring()
        if verbose:
@@ -48,5 +54,6 @@ def testtype(type, example):
            print 'array of %s converted to a string: ' \
                   % a.typecode, a.tostring()
 
+
 main()