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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/options.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py index 5302b67cc..c4a85b2c0 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/options.py +++ b/youtube_dl/options.py @@ -26,7 +26,11 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None): except IOError: return default # silently skip if file is not present try: - res = compat_shlex_split(optionf.read(), comments=True) + # FIXME: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/commit/dfe5fa49aed02cf36ba9f743b11b0903554b5e56 + contents = optionf.read() + if sys.version_info < (3,): + contents = contents.decode(preferredencoding()) + res = compat_shlex_split(contents, comments=True) finally: optionf.close() return res |