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 @@
 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 @@
        _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 @@
 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 @@
 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 @@
 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 @@
 :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 @@
 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 @@
 
    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 @@
 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 @@
 
    >>> 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 @@
 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 @@
 
 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 @@
 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 @@
 
    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 @@
    # 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 @@
 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 @@
 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 @@
    $ ./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'