From 8698198452840281bd311c157043d1dc7f2be445 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 17:50:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] tools/update-authors-json: Avoid shelling out for cp.

Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
---
 tools/update-authors-json | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/update-authors-json b/tools/update-authors-json
index debb580905..b90b78a4b0 100755
--- a/tools/update-authors-json
+++ b/tools/update-authors-json
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union, cast
 from mypy_extensions import TypedDict
 
 import os
+import shutil
 import sys
 import argparse
 from time import sleep
 from datetime import date
-import subprocess
 
 import requests
 import json
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ def copy_fixture() -> None:
     Copy test fixture file from zerver/tests/fixtures. This is used to avoid
     constantly fetching data from Github during testing.
     """
-    subprocess.check_call(['cp', FIXTURE_FILE, settings.CONTRIBUTORS_DATA])
+    shutil.copyfile(FIXTURE_FILE, settings.CONTRIBUTORS_DATA)
 
 
 if args.use_fixture: