[New-bugs-announce] [issue23774] Test failures when unable to write to install location

[Steve Dower]

New submission from Steve Dower:

The following tests fail when run in an all-users installation because they cannot write to the install directory:

test_compileall test_tcl test_tools test_zipfile

See the attached file for traces.

>From Ned Deily:
Regarding tests trying to write into the install directory tree, I'm pretty sure that there have been fixes added for those but I can't recall off the top of my head specific examples.  I think the best approach is to use a temporary, writable directory instead; if that's not practical, then the test case should be skipped.  I support fixing any tests that still currently fail due to this.

(New issue cloned from discussion on #23619)

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components: Tests, Windows
files: 35a2-failures.txt
messages: 239225
nosy: ned.deily, paul.moore, steve.dower, terry.reedy, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Test failures when unable to write to install location
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file38682/35a2-failures.txt

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