From: Enrico Forestieri <forenr@lyx.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 20:28:03 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Fix bug #11247
X-Git-Tag: lyx-2.4.0dev-acb2ca7b~3137
X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=061cd7fd9ca002c8935dbb6cd5b19c2725c3f1f5;p=lyx.git

Fix bug #11247

async is a reserved keyword in python 3.7
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diff --git a/lib/configure.py b/lib/configure.py
index 72b18f86a3..1a4ef559bb 100644
--- a/lib/configure.py
+++ b/lib/configure.py
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ def removeFiles(filenames):
             pass
 
 
-def cmdOutput(cmd, async = False):
+def cmdOutput(cmd, asynchronous = False):
     '''utility function: run a command and get its output as a string
         cmd: command to run
-        async: if False, return whole output as a string, otherwise
+        asynchronous: if False, return whole output as a string, otherwise
                return the stdout handle from which the output can be
                read (the caller is then responsible for closing it)
     '''
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ def cmdOutput(cmd, async = False):
     pipe = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=b, close_fds=b, stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
                             stdout=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True)
     pipe.stdin.close()
-    if async:
+    if asynchronous:
         return pipe.stdout
     output = pipe.stdout.read()
     pipe.stdout.close()