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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/utils.py4
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 0aa350e64..a5df62bf8 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -292,6 +292,10 @@ def encodeFilename(s):
assert type(s) == type(u'')
+ # Python 3 has a Unicode API
+ if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
+ return s
+
if sys.platform == 'win32' and sys.getwindowsversion()[0] >= 5:
# Pass u'' directly to use Unicode APIs on Windows 2000 and up
# (Detecting Windows NT 4 is tricky because 'major >= 4' would