I realize why you made this change (distutils noisily prints out that "creating ..." message when creating its temp directory). Good catch on that one, I guess I never ran the tests in a totally clean environment and I suppose I assumed that message was going to stderr anyway. But this code is still not quite right and the test now always fails regardless of the existence of the temp directory. The problem is that the leading `#` requires that the output begin with that character, which it never does. Ideally we'd want just a line with `...` but that doesn't work at all (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5812833/can-i-have-an-ellipsis-at-the-beginning-of-the-line-in-a-python-doctest).

I just pushed a fix for the root cause in 08aeae9b17bc0161d32b5e61c9335e38e900de79 so this change should be reverted.