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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py index f1931b04d..2b76a3b09 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py +++ b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py @@ -185,7 +185,10 @@ class FileDownloader(object): def to_stderr(self, message): """Print message to stderr.""" assert type(message) == type(u'') - sys.stderr.write((message + u'\n').encode(preferredencoding())) + output = message + u'\n' + if 'b' in getattr(self._screen_file, 'mode', '') or sys.version_info[0] < 3: # Python 2 lies about the mode of sys.stdout/sys.stderr + output = output.encode(preferredencoding()) + sys.stderr.write(output) def to_cons_title(self, message): """Set console/terminal window title to message.""" |