--- Lib/tempfile.py.orig	Thu Aug  4 17:05:24 2011
+++ Lib/tempfile.py	Tue Aug 23 12:55:40 2011
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@
     # Failing that, try OS-specific locations.
     if _os.name == 'nt':
         dirlist.extend([ r'c:\temp', r'c:\tmp', r'\temp', r'\tmp' ])
+    elif _sys.platform.startswith('openbsd'):
+        dirlist.extend([ '/tmp', '/var/tmp' ])
     else:
         dirlist.extend([ '/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/usr/tmp' ])