[issue12721] Chaotic use of helper functions in test_shutil for reading and writing files

[Petri Lehtinen]

Petri Lehtinen <petri at digip.org> added the comment:

Éric Araujo wrote:
> Petri: these helper functions are all about convenienve. I would
> reject a patch for a function just doing open+read, but here I think
> that doing os.path.join+open+read is worth a function. We use such
> helpers all the time in packaging tests and it helps reducing
> boilerplate, without being very hard to understand.

Ok, sounds reasonable.

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