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| author | Sergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com> | 2015-12-20 02:43:50 +0600 |
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| committer | Sergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com> | 2015-12-20 02:43:50 +0600 |
| commit | dd85e4d70787dd0c106fb05bdb0a38f51037fd39 (patch) | |
| tree | 3af3d5ad4f9b8c441cc85f259d330150a583a184 | |
| parent | fa64a8431166ad7ca7bd2881306ee379b6e2abfd (diff) | |
[extractor/common] Properly decode error string on python 2 (Closes #1354, closes #3957, closes #4037, closes #6449)
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/common.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py index 6ab2d68d6..3ab72ff76 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ from ..utils import ( fix_xml_ampersands, float_or_none, int_or_none, + preferredencoding, RegexNotFoundError, sanitize_filename, sanitized_Request, @@ -332,7 +333,12 @@ class InfoExtractor(object): return False if errnote is None: errnote = 'Unable to download webpage' - errmsg = '%s: %s' % (errnote, compat_str(err)) + err_str = str(err) + # On python 2 error byte string must be decoded with proper + # encoding rather than ascii + if sys.version_info[0] < 3: + err_str = err_str.decode(preferredencoding()) + errmsg = '%s: %s' % (errnote, err_str) if fatal: raise ExtractorError(errmsg, sys.exc_info()[2], cause=err) else: |