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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/utils.py4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 620c4fe8a..233286de8 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
import calendar
import codecs
import contextlib
@@ -1337,7 +1339,7 @@ def escape_rfc3986(s):
"""Escape non-ASCII characters as suggested by RFC 3986"""
if sys.version_info < (3, 0) and isinstance(s, unicode):
s = s.encode('utf-8')
- return compat_urllib_parse.quote(s, "%/;:@&=+$,!~*'()?#[]")
+ return compat_urllib_parse.quote(s, b"%/;:@&=+$,!~*'()?#[]")
def escape_url(url):