Add .to_stderr() to downloaders

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index 7323ad4f2..1c4a05471 100755
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -148,6 +148,10 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		if not self._params.get('quiet', False):
 			sys.stdout.write('%s%s' % (message, ['\n', ''][skip_eol]))
 			sys.stdout.flush()
+	
+	def to_stderr(self, message):
+		"""Print message to stderr."""
+		sys.stderr.write('%s\n' % message)
 
 	def download(self, url_list):
 		"""Download a given list of URLs."""
@@ -170,30 +174,30 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 					try:
 						filename = self._params['outtmpl'] % result
 					except (KeyError), err:
-						sys.stderr.write('ERROR: invalid output template: %s\n' % str(err))
+						self.to_stderr('ERROR: invalid output template: %s' % str(err))
 						continue
 					try:
 						self.pmkdir(filename)
 					except (OSError, IOError), err:
-						sys.stderr.write('ERROR: unable to create directories: %s\n' % str(err))
+						self.to_stderr('ERROR: unable to create directories: %s' % str(err))
 						continue
 					try:
 						outstream = open(filename, 'wb')
 					except (OSError, IOError), err:
-						sys.stderr.write('ERROR: unable to open for writing: %s\n' % str(err))
+						self.to_stderr('ERROR: unable to open for writing: %s' % str(err))
 						continue
 					try:
 						self._do_download(outstream, result['url'])
 						outstream.close()
 					except (OSError, IOError), err:
-						sys.stderr.write('ERROR: unable to write video data: %s\n' % str(err))
+						self.to_stderr('ERROR: unable to write video data: %s' % str(err))
 						continue
 					except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
-						sys.stderr.write('ERROR: unable to download video data: %s\n' % str(err))
+						self.to_stderr('ERROR: unable to download video data: %s' % str(err))
 						continue
 				break
 			if not suitable_found:
-				sys.stderr.write('ERROR: no suitable InfoExtractor: %s\n' % url)
+				self.to_stderr('ERROR: no suitable InfoExtractor: %s' % url)
 	
 	def _do_download(self, stream, url):
 		request = urllib2.Request(url, None, std_headers)