Index: Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
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--- Lib/test/test_subprocess.py	(revision 59579)
+++ Lib/test/test_subprocess.py	(working copy)
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@
         self.assertEquals(rc, 2)
 
     def test_cwd(self):
-        tmpdir = os.getenv("TEMP", "/tmp")
+        tmpdir = tempfile.gettempdir()
         # We cannot use os.path.realpath to canonicalize the path,
         # since it doesn't expand Tru64 {memb} strings. See bug 1063571.
         cwd = os.getcwd()