Revert cosmetic change.

A reminder: distutils only gets bug fixes.  Cosmetic changes, especially
in tests, are not worth the time spent, and can even make future merges
of bugfixes a bit less easy.

tests/test_build_py.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from distutils.core import Distribution
 from distutils.errors import DistutilsFileError
 
 from distutils.tests import support
-from test.support import run_unittest, create_empty_file
+from test.support import run_unittest
 
 
 class BuildPyTestCase(support.TempdirManager,
@@ -71,11 +71,11 @@ class BuildPyTestCase(support.TempdirManager,
 
         # create the distribution files.
         sources = self.mkdtemp()
-        create_empty_file(os.path.join(sources, "__init__.py"))
+        open(os.path.join(sources, "__init__.py"), "w").close()
 
         testdir = os.path.join(sources, "doc")
         os.mkdir(testdir)
-        create_empty_file(os.path.join(testdir, "testfile"))
+        open(os.path.join(testdir, "testfile"), "w").close()
 
         os.chdir(sources)
         old_stdout = sys.stdout