From fb13ecb29203763d707471fe29d290441e91244c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: esadomer <54475303+esadomer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:49:41 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Exercise load in the pickle closed-file test

---
 Lib/test/pickletester.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/pickletester.py b/Lib/test/pickletester.py
index c53262e358b48ea..09d4c6ebd0ba67c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/pickletester.py
+++ b/Lib/test/pickletester.py
@@ -4910,10 +4910,10 @@ def test_dump_closed_file(self):
             os_helper.unlink(TESTFN)
 
     def test_load_closed_file(self):
-        f = open(TESTFN, "wb")
+        f = open(TESTFN, "w+b")
         try:
             f.close()
-            self.assertRaises(ValueError, self.dump, 123, f)
+            self.assertRaises(ValueError, self.load, f)
         finally:
             os_helper.unlink(TESTFN)
 

From c7215cddbdc88adce0e8153d38c10e2fc7805a7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: esadomer <54475303+esadomer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:09:39 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] gh-159361: Add NEWS entry for pickle-closed-load-test

---
 .../next/Tests/2026-10-13-20-09-39.gh-issue-159361.pKlCls.rst   | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2026-10-13-20-09-39.gh-issue-159361.pKlCls.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2026-10-13-20-09-39.gh-issue-159361.pKlCls.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2026-10-13-20-09-39.gh-issue-159361.pKlCls.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..424317d565ab90a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2026-10-13-20-09-39.gh-issue-159361.pKlCls.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix the pickle closed-file loading test to exercise loading rather than
+dumping in both the Python and C implementations.

From ae6b19e34248a73a8172d2f61e6ea1447028a177 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: esadomer <54475303+esadomer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:07:15 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] gh-159361: Omit NEWS for test-only changes

---
 .../next/Tests/2026-10-13-20-09-39.gh-issue-159361.pKlCls.rst   | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2026-10-13-20-09-39.gh-issue-159361.pKlCls.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2026-10-13-20-09-39.gh-issue-159361.pKlCls.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2026-10-13-20-09-39.gh-issue-159361.pKlCls.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 424317d565ab90a..000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2026-10-13-20-09-39.gh-issue-159361.pKlCls.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix the pickle closed-file loading test to exercise loading rather than
-dumping in both the Python and C implementations.