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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/utils.py16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 839da17d0..a64937b4c 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -194,10 +194,20 @@ def timeconvert(timestr):
def sanitize_filename(s):
"""Sanitizes a string so it could be used as part of a filename."""
def replace_insane(char):
- if char in u' .\\/|?*<>:"' or ord(char) < 32:
- return '_'
+ if char == '?' or ord(char) < 32 or ord(char) == 127:
+ return ''
+ elif char == '"':
+ return '\''
+ elif char == ':':
+ return ' -'
+ elif char in '\\/|*<>':
+ return '-'
return char
- return u''.join(map(replace_insane, s)).strip('_')
+
+ result = u''.join(map(replace_insane, s))
+ while '--' in result:
+ result = result.replace('--', '-')
+ return result.strip('-')
def orderedSet(iterable):
""" Remove all duplicates from the input iterable """