From 935c483b9e7955d4fe59e7493344d88a21e7ce78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harshada Mangesh Kakad <harshadak@metsi.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 01:52:38 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing the deprecated library function.

os.popen() is deprecated since version 2.6. Resolved with use of
subprocess module.

Change-Id: I6ac6eb8618dd3d7325b43c67c1cb294bd8bff702
Partial-Bug: #1529836
---
 doc/source/conf.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index ebb5c7f933..c01c823ff5 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ from __future__ import print_function
 
 import django
 import os
+import subprocess
 import sys
 
 BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
@@ -281,8 +282,10 @@ html_static_path = ['_static']
 # If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
 # using the given strftime format.
 # html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y'
-git_cmd = "git log --pretty=format:'%ad, commit %h' --date=local -n1"
-html_last_updated_fmt = os.popen(git_cmd).read()
+git_cmd = ["git", "log", "--pretty=format:'%ad, commit %h'", "--date=local",
+           "-n1"]
+html_last_updated_fmt = subprocess.Popen(
+    git_cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
 
 # If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
 # typographically correct entities.