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Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl/update.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/update.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/update.py b/youtube_dl/update.py index 002ea7f33..84c964617 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/update.py +++ b/youtube_dl/update.py @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import subprocess import sys from zipimport import zipimporter +from .compat import compat_realpath from .utils import encode_compat_str from .version import __version__ @@ -84,7 +85,9 @@ def update_self(to_screen, verbose, opener): print_notes(to_screen, versions_info['versions']) # sys.executable is set to the full pathname of the exe-file for py2exe - filename = sys.executable if hasattr(sys, 'frozen') else sys.argv[0] + # though symlinks are not followed so that we need to do this manually + # with help of realpath + filename = compat_realpath(sys.executable if hasattr(sys, 'frozen') else sys.argv[0]) if not os.access(filename, os.W_OK): to_screen('ERROR: no write permissions on %s' % filename) |