[utils] Support xattr as well as pyxattr

Closes #9054

There are two xattr packages in Python, pyxattr [1] and xattr [2]. They
have different APIs.

In old days pyxattr supports Linux only and xattr supports Linux, Mac,
FreeBSD and Solaris, and pyxattr supports Linux only. Recently pyxattr
adds support for Mac OS X. [3]

An old version of [2] is shipped with Mac OS X. However, some Linux
distributions have pyxattr only, for example PLD-Linux [4] and old Arch
Linux. [5] As a result, supporting both is the way to go.

[1] https://github.com/iustin/pyxattr
[2] https://github.com/xattr/xattr
[3] https://github.com/iustin/pyxattr/pull/9
[4] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/5498
[5] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/?id=427c4c76401e386d865ccddea4fbfdc74df80492
    https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/?id=59b40da7b69622a6761d364a8b07909e9cccaa56
    python-xattr is added on 2016/06/29 while pyxattr is there for more
    than 6 years

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index efc3e494e..8ef39cd63 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 version <unreleased>
 
+Core
++ Support pyxattr as well as python-xattr for --xattrs and
+  --xattr-set-filesize (#9054)
+
 Extractors
 * [dctp] Fix extraction (#10734)
 + [leeco] Recognize more Le Sports URLs (#10794)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index d2dfa8013..c259f8bff 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -3161,20 +3161,25 @@ def write_xattr(path, key, value):
         # try the pyxattr module...
         import xattr
 
-        # Unicode arguments are not supported in python-pyxattr until
-        # version 0.5.0
-        # See https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/5498
-        pyxattr_required_version = '0.5.0'
-        if version_tuple(xattr.__version__) < version_tuple(pyxattr_required_version):
-            # TODO: fallback to CLI tools
-            raise XAttrUnavailableError(
-                'python-pyxattr is detected but is too old. '
-                'youtube-dl requires %s or above while your version is %s. '
-                'Falling back to other xattr implementations' % (
-                    pyxattr_required_version, xattr.__version__))
+        if hasattr(xattr, 'set'):  # pyxattr
+            # Unicode arguments are not supported in python-pyxattr until
+            # version 0.5.0
+            # See https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/5498
+            pyxattr_required_version = '0.5.0'
+            if version_tuple(xattr.__version__) < version_tuple(pyxattr_required_version):
+                # TODO: fallback to CLI tools
+                raise XAttrUnavailableError(
+                    'python-pyxattr is detected but is too old. '
+                    'youtube-dl requires %s or above while your version is %s. '
+                    'Falling back to other xattr implementations' % (
+                        pyxattr_required_version, xattr.__version__))
+
+            setxattr = xattr.set
+        else:  # xattr
+            setxattr = xattr.setxattr
 
         try:
-            xattr.set(path, key, value)
+            setxattr(path, key, value)
         except EnvironmentError as e:
             raise XAttrMetadataError(e.errno, e.strerror)