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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index 30160d59d..9a2e54d14 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from ..utils import (
compat_urllib_parse,
compat_urllib_request,
compat_urlparse,
+ compat_xml_parse_error,
ExtractorError,
HEADRequest,
@@ -241,10 +242,10 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
# Is it an RSS feed?
try:
- doc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(webpage)
+ doc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
if doc.tag == 'rss':
return self._extract_rss(url, video_id, doc)
- except xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError:
+ except compat_xml_parse_error:
pass
# it's tempting to parse this further, but you would