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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/__init__.py | 4 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py index 711b5d79e..b822930cb 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py +++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object): _num_downloads = None _screen_file = None - def __init__(self, params={}): + def __init__(self, params=None): """Create a FileDownloader object with the given options.""" self._ies = [] self._ies_instances = {} @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object): self._download_retcode = 0 self._num_downloads = 0 self._screen_file = [sys.stdout, sys.stderr][params.get('logtostderr', False)] - self.params = params + self.params = {} if params is None else params if (sys.version_info >= (3,) and sys.platform != 'win32' and sys.getfilesystemencoding() in ['ascii', 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'] diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py index 8f8422cc7..92e583744 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py +++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None): default=None, type=int) selection.add_option('--download-archive', metavar='FILE', dest='download_archive', - help='Download only videos not present in the archive file. Record all downloaded videos in it.') + help='Download only videos not present in the archive file. Record the IDs of all downloaded videos in it.') authentication.add_option('-u', '--username', @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None): help='print downloaded pages to debug problems(very verbose)') verbosity.add_option('--write-pages', action='store_true', dest='write_pages', default=False, - help='Write downloaded pages to files in the current directory') + help='Write downloaded intermediary pages to files in the current directory to debug problems') verbosity.add_option('--youtube-print-sig-code', action='store_true', dest='youtube_print_sig_code', default=False, help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP) |