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Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl/compat.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/compat.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py index cf10835ca..f39d4e9a9 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/compat.py +++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py @@ -216,8 +216,7 @@ except ImportError: # Python 2.6 if sys.version_info[0] >= 3: compat_etree_fromstring = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring else: - # on python 2.x the the attributes of a node are str objects instead of - # unicode + # on python 2.x the the attributes of a node aren't always unicode objects etree = xml.etree.ElementTree # on 2.6 XML doesn't have a parser argument, function copied from CPython @@ -231,7 +230,8 @@ else: def _element_factory(*args, **kwargs): el = etree.Element(*args, **kwargs) for k, v in el.items(): - el.set(k, v.decode('utf-8')) + if isinstance(v, bytes): + el.set(k, v.decode('utf-8')) return el def compat_etree_fromstring(text): |