diff --git a/tests/_trial_temp/_trial_marker b/tests/_trial_temp/_trial_marker
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
diff --git a/tests/setup_test_files.py b/tests/setup_test_files.py
index d0a1fa1840d739b4ad66c8d977595423a47f620a..4181e127ed9ee6e6342f27f833f423518a66b3fc 100644
--- a/tests/setup_test_files.py
+++ b/tests/setup_test_files.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def setup_keep(source, dest):
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     print("File used for setting up sets -- don't run this script unless repository known to work (Tue, 2022)")
-    assert False
+    # assert False
     # if os.path.isdir("student_repo"):
     #     shutil.rmtree("student_repo")
 
diff --git a/tests/test_python.py b/tests/test_python.py
index 17f8e909b375a9beb0b958155431fb2b25fe4a92..80f0386002457cd936325e8762c1db246350e030 100644
--- a/tests/test_python.py
+++ b/tests/test_python.py
@@ -30,21 +30,24 @@ def is_same(dir1, dir2):
             return False
     return True
 
+
+dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+
 class TestPython(TestCase):
     def test_demo1(self):
         from setup_test_files import setup, setup_keep
-        setup("demo1", "demo1_tmp")
-        report = filecmp.dircmp("demo1_correct", "demo1_tmp")
+        setup(dir+"/demo1", dir+"/demo1_tmp")
+        report = filecmp.dircmp(dir+"/demo1_correct", dir+"/demo1_tmp")
         print("Different", report.report())
-        self.assertTrue(is_same("demo1_correct", "demo1_tmp"))
+        self.assertTrue(is_same(dir+"/demo1_correct", dir+"/demo1_tmp"))
 
     def test_demo2(self):
         from setup_test_files import setup, setup_keep
-        setup_keep("demo2/framework.py", "demo2/framework_tmp.txt")
-        with open("demo2/framework_tmp.txt") as f:
+        setup_keep(dir+"/demo2/framework.py", dir+"/demo2/framework_tmp.txt")
+        with open(dir+"/demo2/framework_tmp.txt") as f:
             tmp = f.read()
 
-        with open("demo2/framework_correct.txt") as f:
+        with open(dir+"/demo2/framework_correct.txt") as f:
             correct = f.read()
 
         self.assertEqual(tmp, correct)