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  r73930 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-07-10 12:47:42 -0400 (Fri, 10 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  #6447: typo in subprocess docstring
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  r73931 | ezio.melotti | 2009-07-10 16:25:56 -0400 (Fri, 10 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  more cleanups and if zlib -> skipUnless(zlib)
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  r73932 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-07-11 04:44:43 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 3 lines

  http://bugs.python.org/issue6460
  Need to be careful with thread switching when testing the xmlrpc server.  The server thread may not have updated stats when the client thread tests them.
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  r73937 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-11 06:12:36 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Fix style.
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  r73938 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-11 06:14:54 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6446: fix import_spam() function to use correct error and reference handling.
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  r73939 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-11 06:18:10 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6448: clarify docs for find_module().
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  r73945 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-11 06:51:31 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6456: clarify the meaning of constants used as arguments to nl_langinfo().
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  r73951 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-11 10:23:38 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  array.array is actually a class.
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  r73954 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-11 13:21:00 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  reverted changes for #6459 (doesn't apply on 2.x)
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  r73962 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-11 18:15:13 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  put downloaded test support files in Lib/test/data instead of the cwd
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  r73963 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-11 18:25:24 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  ignore things in Lib/test/data/
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  r73970 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-07-11 22:04:47 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed distutils test.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/support.py b/Lib/test/support.py
index f24adc8..e11fbae 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support.py
@@ -453,13 +453,12 @@
     requires('urlfetch')
     filename = urllib.parse.urlparse(url)[2].split('/')[-1] # '/': it's URL!
 
-    for path in [os.path.curdir, os.path.pardir]:
-        fn = os.path.join(path, filename)
-        if os.path.exists(fn):
-            return open(fn, *args, **kw)
+    fn = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "data", filename)
+    if os.path.exists(fn):
+        return open(fn)
 
     print('\tfetching %s ...' % url, file=get_original_stdout())
-    fn, _ = urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, filename)
+    fn, _ = urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, fn)
     return open(fn, *args, **kw)