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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/options.py6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 5302b67cc..c4a85b2c0 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
except IOError:
return default # silently skip if file is not present
try:
- res = compat_shlex_split(optionf.read(), comments=True)
+ # FIXME: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/commit/dfe5fa49aed02cf36ba9f743b11b0903554b5e56
+ contents = optionf.read()
+ if sys.version_info < (3,):
+ contents = contents.decode(preferredencoding())
+ res = compat_shlex_split(contents, comments=True)
finally:
optionf.close()
return res