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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index f39d4e9a9..2d43ec852 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/compat.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py
@@ -216,9 +216,19 @@ 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 aren't always unicode objects
+ # on python 2.x the attributes and text of a node aren't always unicode
+ # objects
etree = xml.etree.ElementTree
+ try:
+ _etree_iter = etree.Element.iter
+ except AttributeError: # Python <=2.6
+ def _etree_iter(root):
+ for el in root.findall('*'):
+ yield el
+ for sub in _etree_iter(el):
+ yield sub
+
# on 2.6 XML doesn't have a parser argument, function copied from CPython
# 2.7 source
def _XML(text, parser=None):
@@ -235,7 +245,11 @@ else:
return el
def compat_etree_fromstring(text):
- return _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=etree.TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
+ doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=etree.TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
+ for el in _etree_iter(doc):
+ if el.text is not None and isinstance(el.text, bytes):
+ el.text = el.text.decode('utf-8')
+ return doc
try:
from urllib.parse import parse_qs as compat_parse_qs