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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/common.py7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 1fc0624a3..939249d7b 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from ..utils import (
sanitize_filename,
unescapeHTML,
)
+_NO_DEFAULT = object()
class InfoExtractor(object):
@@ -281,7 +282,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
video_info['title'] = playlist_title
return video_info
- def _search_regex(self, pattern, string, name, default=None, fatal=True, flags=0):
+ def _search_regex(self, pattern, string, name, default=_NO_DEFAULT, fatal=True, flags=0):
"""
Perform a regex search on the given string, using a single or a list of
patterns returning the first matching group.
@@ -303,7 +304,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
if mobj:
# return the first matching group
return next(g for g in mobj.groups() if g is not None)
- elif default is not None:
+ elif default is not _NO_DEFAULT:
return default
elif fatal:
raise RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract %s' % _name)
@@ -312,7 +313,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
u'please report this issue on http://yt-dl.org/bug' % _name)
return None
- def _html_search_regex(self, pattern, string, name, default=None, fatal=True, flags=0):
+ def _html_search_regex(self, pattern, string, name, default=_NO_DEFAULT, fatal=True, flags=0):
"""
Like _search_regex, but strips HTML tags and unescapes entities.
"""