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  r78838 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-11 15:36:19 +0100 (jeu, 11 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3.  The cElementTree module is updated too.
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  r78839 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-11 16:55:11 +0100 (jeu, 11 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix repr of tree Element on windows.
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  r78917 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-13 12:18:49 +0100 (sam, 13 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Move the xml test data to their own directory.
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  r78919 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-13 13:41:48 +0100 (sam, 13 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Do not chdir when running test_xml_etree, and enhance the findfile helper.
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  r78934 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-13 18:56:19 +0100 (sam, 13 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Update some parts of the xml.etree documentation.
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  r78937 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-13 21:30:15 +0100 (sam, 13 mar 2010) | 3 lines

  Add the keyword argument "method=None" to the .write() method and the tostring/tostringlist functions.
  Update the function, class and method signatures, according to the new convention.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/support.py b/Lib/test/support.py
index 769f94a..a05f420 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support.py
@@ -402,12 +402,14 @@
             rmtree(name)
 
 
-def findfile(file, here=__file__):
+def findfile(file, here=__file__, subdir=None):
     """Try to find a file on sys.path and the working directory.  If it is not
     found the argument passed to the function is returned (this does not
     necessarily signal failure; could still be the legitimate path)."""
     if os.path.isabs(file):
         return file
+    if subdir is not None:
+        file = os.path.join(subdir, file)
     path = sys.path
     path = [os.path.dirname(here)] + path
     for dn in path: