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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/__init__.py13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 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,