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authorYen Chi Hsuan <yan12125@gmail.com>2017-02-12 00:42:43 +0800
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-02-12 00:42:43 +0800
commitf3915452ded79ebc52126a33359739ecc1594f67 (patch)
tree3763362765aaf9d163ce1032d6946cee874744ee /youtube_dl
parent68c22c4c15a608a7067f658f5facc1ad8334c03a (diff)
parent2f49bcd69076626db1b789192dd113458b1eb01c (diff)
Merge pull request #12085 from wiiaboo/python2
utils.py: Workaround TypeError with Python 2.7.13 in Windows
Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl')
-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