From d11d5ee09de8d2d15c18519cdc5fa3aedd985ac2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harshada Mangesh Kakad <harshadak@metsi.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 01:38:46 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing the deprecated library function.

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

Change-Id: I0751dbda085922d5e390cb7a19a9e832d399e20b
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 12d1d4020f..7e4503da96 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -127,8 +127,11 @@ html_static_path = ['_static']
 
 # If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
 # using the given strftime format.
-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.