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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/__init__.py | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/options.py | 2 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py index 0bd7b68c3..09da8802d 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py +++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py @@ -143,10 +143,13 @@ def _real_main(argv=None): parser.error('invalid max_filesize specified') opts.max_filesize = numeric_limit if opts.retries is not None: - try: - opts.retries = int(opts.retries) - except (TypeError, ValueError): - parser.error('invalid retry count specified') + if opts.retries in ('inf', 'infinite'): + opts_retries = float('inf') + else: + try: + opts_retries = int(opts.retries) + except (TypeError, ValueError): + parser.error('invalid retry count specified') if opts.buffersize is not None: numeric_buffersize = FileDownloader.parse_bytes(opts.buffersize) if numeric_buffersize is None: @@ -268,7 +271,7 @@ def _real_main(argv=None): 'ignoreerrors': opts.ignoreerrors, 'ratelimit': opts.ratelimit, 'nooverwrites': opts.nooverwrites, - 'retries': opts.retries, + 'retries': opts_retries, 'buffersize': opts.buffersize, 'noresizebuffer': opts.noresizebuffer, 'continuedl': opts.continue_dl, diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py index 872835295..1ddbdbc78 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/options.py +++ b/youtube_dl/options.py @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None): downloader.add_option( '-R', '--retries', dest='retries', metavar='RETRIES', default=10, - help='number of retries (default is %default)') + help='number of retries (default is %default), or "infinite".') downloader.add_option( '--buffer-size', dest='buffersize', metavar='SIZE', default='1024', |