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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/utils.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py index a81fe7d30..1279a9042 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/utils.py +++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py @@ -1684,6 +1684,11 @@ def setproctitle(title): libc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary('libc.so.6') except OSError: return + except TypeError: + # LoadLibrary in Windows Python 2.7.13 only expects + # a bytestring, but since unicode_literals turns + # every string into a unicode string, it fails. + return title_bytes = title.encode('utf-8') buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(len(title_bytes)) buf.value = title_bytes |