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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/__init__.py3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index ce4e67848..e86ac49b3 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -506,7 +506,8 @@ def _real_main():
if sys.version_info < (3,):
# In Python 2, sys.argv is a bytestring (also note http://bugs.python.org/issue2128 for Windows systems)
- opts.outtmpl = opts.outtmpl.decode(preferredencoding())
+ if opts.outtmpl is not None:
+ opts.outtmpl = opts.outtmpl.decode(preferredencoding())
outtmpl =((opts.outtmpl is not None and opts.outtmpl)
or (opts.format == '-1' and opts.usetitle and u'%(title)s-%(id)s-%(format)s.%(ext)s')
or (opts.format == '-1' and u'%(id)s-%(format)s.%(ext)s')