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

[Antoine Pitrou]

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

> Giving the ability to the developers to work in a context manager
> means that you potentially give them the ability to break this
> atomicity.

AFAICT this doesn't make sense. The writing isn't atomic, the renaming
is.

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