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diff --git a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
index 6d52dc923..4e9b55f49 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
if not self.params.get('quiet', False):
terminator = [u'\n', u''][skip_eol]
output = message + terminator
- if 'b' not in self._screen_file.mode or sys.version_info[0] < 3: # Python 2 lies about the mode of sys.stdout/sys.stderr
+ if 'b' in getattr(self._screen_file, 'mode', '') or sys.version_info[0] < 3: # Python 2 lies about the mode of sys.stdout/sys.stderr
output = output.encode(preferredencoding(), 'ignore')
self._screen_file.write(output)
self._screen_file.flush()