Merge "Replace deprecated library function os.popen() with subprocess"

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index 9dec3b6..205a5e5 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import datetime
 import os
+import subprocess
 import sys
 
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../..'))
@@ -70,8 +71,10 @@ html_static_path = ['static']
 # Output file base name for HTML help builder.
 htmlhelp_basename = '%sdoc' % project
 
-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]
 
 # Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
 # (source start file, target name, title, author, documentclass