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diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index dbb91a6ef..76b6b0e38 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/compat.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py
@@ -170,6 +170,31 @@ except ImportError: # Python 2
return compat_urllib_parse_unquote(string, encoding, errors)
try:
+ from urllib.parse import urlencode as compat_urllib_parse_urlencode
+except ImportError: # Python 2
+ # Python 2 will choke in urlencode on mixture of byte and unicode strings.
+ # Possible solutions are to either port it from python 3 with all
+ # the friends or manually ensure input query contains only byte strings.
+ # We will stick with latter thus recursively encoding the whole query.
+ def compat_urllib_parse_urlencode(query, doseq=0, encoding='utf-8'):
+ def encode_elem(e):
+ if isinstance(e, dict):
+ e = encode_dict(e)
+ elif isinstance(e, (list, tuple,)):
+ e = encode_list(e)
+ elif isinstance(e, compat_str):
+ e = e.encode(encoding)
+ return e
+
+ def encode_dict(d):
+ return dict((encode_elem(k), encode_elem(v)) for k, v in d.items())
+
+ def encode_list(l):
+ return [encode_elem(e) for e in l]
+
+ return compat_urllib_parse.urlencode(encode_elem(query), doseq=doseq)
+
+try:
from urllib.request import DataHandler as compat_urllib_request_DataHandler
except ImportError: # Python < 3.4
# Ported from CPython 98774:1733b3bd46db, Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -588,6 +613,7 @@ __all__ = [
'compat_urllib_parse_unquote',
'compat_urllib_parse_unquote_plus',
'compat_urllib_parse_unquote_to_bytes',
+ 'compat_urllib_parse_urlencode',
'compat_urllib_parse_urlparse',
'compat_urllib_request',
'compat_urllib_request_DataHandler',