homepage

seen when running the testsuite as user nobody, with
test_site fails when the user's home directory does not exist, and is not creatable (e.g. /nonexistent).
FAILED (failures=3)
test test_pydoc failed
Re-running test 'test_site' in verbose mode
test test_site crashed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/lib/python3.3/test/regrtest.py", line 1213, in runtest_inner
 the_package = __import__(abstest, globals(), locals(), [])
 File "/usr/lib/python3.3/test/test_site.py", line 29, in <module>
 os.makedirs(site.USER_SITE)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.3/os.py", line 258, in makedirs
 makedirs(head, mode, exist_ok)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.3/os.py", line 258, in makedirs
 makedirs(head, mode, exist_ok)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.3/os.py", line 258, in makedirs
 makedirs(head, mode, exist_ok)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.3/os.py", line 258, in makedirs
 makedirs(head, mode, exist_ok)
 File "/usr/lib/python3.3/os.py", line 269, in makedirs
 mkdir(name, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/nonexistent'