From 4fe1864351758990431e2e34c7eabe559376e0ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harshada Mangesh Kakad <harshadak@metsi.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 07:55:45 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing the deprecated library function.

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

Change-Id: I2ff32c4dc37c543696125ac755dc4adb69ddacdf
Partial-Bug: #1529836
---
 doc/source/conf.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index 77f0b3bb70d..4f0b7de0a35 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 # serve to show the default.
 
 import os
+import subprocess
 import sys
 
 # If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
@@ -157,8 +158,11 @@ modindex_common_prefix = ['neutron.']
 # 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.