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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/common.py12
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 3ab72ff76..5659e40c8 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ from ..utils import (
clean_html,
compiled_regex_type,
determine_ext,
+ error_to_str,
ExtractorError,
fix_xml_ampersands,
float_or_none,
int_or_none,
- preferredencoding,
RegexNotFoundError,
sanitize_filename,
sanitized_Request,
@@ -333,12 +333,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
return False
if errnote is None:
errnote = 'Unable to download webpage'
- err_str = str(err)
- # On python 2 error byte string must be decoded with proper
- # encoding rather than ascii
- if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
- err_str = err_str.decode(preferredencoding())
- errmsg = '%s: %s' % (errnote, err_str)
+
+ errmsg = '%s: %s' % (errnote, error_to_str(err))
if fatal:
raise ExtractorError(errmsg, sys.exc_info()[2], cause=err)
else:
@@ -628,7 +624,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
else:
raise netrc.NetrcParseError('No authenticators for %s' % self._NETRC_MACHINE)
except (IOError, netrc.NetrcParseError) as err:
- self._downloader.report_warning('parsing .netrc: %s' % compat_str(err))
+ self._downloader.report_warning('parsing .netrc: %s' % error_to_str(err))
return (username, password)