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diff --git a/doc/user/tasks.xml b/doc/user/tasks.xml
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--- a/doc/user/tasks.xml
+++ b/doc/user/tasks.xml
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ filenames = [x for x in filenames if os.path.splitext(x)[1] in extensions]
<example>
<title>The "backtick function": run a shell command and capture the
output</title>
-<programlisting>import os
-output = os.popen(command).read()
+<programlisting>import subprocess
+output = subprocess.check_output(command)
</programlisting>
</example>