[New-bugs-announce] [issue8604] Alias for distutils.file_util.write_file in e.g. shutils

[Olemis Lang]

New submission from Olemis Lang <olemis+py at gmail.com>:

Often I have the contents to be written in a file at a given path that
I know as well. I recently tried to find a function in stdlib to do
that and to my surprise this is what I found :

 - Such function exists
 - It's `distutils.file_util.write_file`

IMO the last place where people'd look for such a function is inside
`distutils` package. Besides I reviewed modules listed under `File and
directory access` category in `Library Reference` and found nothing
even similar.

The idea is to provide a a similar function in `shutils` module

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 104833
nosy: olemis, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Alias for distutils.file_util.write_file in e.g. shutils
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7

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