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authorRicardo Constantino <wiiaboo@gmail.com>2017-02-10 21:05:09 +0000
committerRicardo Constantino <wiiaboo@gmail.com>2017-02-11 14:51:28 +0000
commit2f49bcd69076626db1b789192dd113458b1eb01c (patch)
treeb4f1ce46b1069b2617aa30b72ec6b2102c374d43
parent9b92a5917ba32644511d13a8af546d6f41282ffc (diff)
utils.py: Workaround TypeError with Python 2.7.13 in Windows
Fixes #11540 Tested with Windows Python 2.7.12 and 2.7.13.
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/utils.py5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index a81fe7d30..1279a9042 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1684,6 +1684,11 @@ def setproctitle(title):
libc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary('libc.so.6')
except OSError:
return
+ except TypeError:
+ # LoadLibrary in Windows Python 2.7.13 only expects
+ # a bytestring, but since unicode_literals turns
+ # every string into a unicode string, it fails.
+ return
title_bytes = title.encode('utf-8')
buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(len(title_bytes))
buf.value = title_bytes