Merged revisions 86223-86224,86226,86234 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r86223 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 00:51:56 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Always close files in distutils code and tests (#10252).
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  r86224 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 00:58:34 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Add missing entry for r86223.
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  r86226 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 00:59:32 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Of course, I forgot one file in r86223.
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  r86234 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 03:10:32 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Also close file descriptors from os.popen and subprocess.Popen
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/file_util.py b/Lib/distutils/file_util.py
index b3d9d54..b9f0786 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/file_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/file_util.py
@@ -224,6 +224,8 @@
     sequence of strings without line terminators) to it.
     """
     f = open(filename, "w")
-    for line in contents:
-        f.write(line + "\n")
-    f.close()
+    try:
+        for line in contents:
+            f.write(line + "\n")
+    finally:
+        f.close()