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-rwxr-xr-xyoutube_dl/YoutubeDL.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index b485dbdf1..4a9610355 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -1250,7 +1250,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
# urllib chokes on URLs with non-ASCII characters (see http://bugs.python.org/issue3991)
# To work around aforementioned issue we will replace request's original URL with
# percent-encoded one
- req_is_string = isinstance(req, basestring)
+ req_is_string = isinstance(req, basestring if sys.version_info < (3, 0) else compat_str)
url = req if req_is_string else req.get_full_url()
url_escaped = escape_url(url)