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| -rwxr-xr-x | youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py index fba99af8d..b20837ce2 100755 --- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py +++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ if os.name == 'nt': import ctypes from .compat import ( + compat_basestring, compat_cookiejar, compat_expanduser, compat_get_terminal_size, @@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ from .compat import ( compat_urllib_error, compat_urllib_request, compat_urllib_request_DataHandler, + compat_urllib_request_Request, ) from .utils import ( ContentTooShortError, @@ -1871,6 +1873,8 @@ class YoutubeDL(object): def urlopen(self, req): """ Start an HTTP download """ + if isinstance(req, compat_basestring): + req = compat_urllib_request_Request(req) return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout) def print_debug_header(self): |