#7712: add a temp_cwd context manager to test_support and use it in regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory, saving the original CWD in test_support.SAVEDCWD. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 75198d7..2eccbab 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -17,13 +17,24 @@
- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to
specify the compression type.
+
- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
class to be used without having to subclass.
+
- Issue 7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is
+ now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
+ The original CWD is saved in `test_support.SAVEDCWD`.
+ Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
+
+
What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
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