Ticket #181: sugar-datastore-popen.patch

src/olpc/datastore/optimizer.py

@@ -17 +17 @@
 import os
 import errno
 import logging
+import subprocess
 
 import gobject
 
@@ -155 +156 @@
         """Calculate the md5 checksum of a given file.
         
         """
-        in_, out = os.popen2(['md5sum', path])
-        return out.read().split(' ', 1)[0]
+        out = subprocess.Popen(["md5sum", path],
+                stdout = subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
+        return out.split(' ', 1)[0]