[issue8604] Alias for distutils.file_util.write_file in e.g. shutils

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Well, a context manager sounds overkill since we just want to write
> some content in a file (and nothing else during that context). 

Using a context manager, though, is the recommended idiom to write
files. I think there's a value in remaining consistent. We don't want to
end up like PHP which has dozens of different idioms of doing similar
things.

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