Issue #11377: platform.popen() emits a DeprecationWarning

diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index 1e4abe64a1c60ae76bbc8801bcdce595c195ed68..e2a74fe13ca974ec0b828000252d78c346cd3471 100755 (executable)
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -361,6 +361,8 @@ def popen(cmd, mode='r', bufsize=-1):
 
     """ Portable popen() interface.
     """
+    import warnings
+    warnings.warn('use os.popen instead', DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
     return os.popen(cmd, mode, bufsize)
 
 def _norm_version(version, build=''):