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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/utils.py3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 7536b3b36..247788078 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -305,6 +305,9 @@ def xpath_with_ns(path, ns_map):
def xpath_text(node, xpath, name=None, fatal=False):
+ if sys.version_info < (2, 7): # Crazy 2.6
+ xpath = xpath.encode('ascii')
+
n = node.find(xpath)
if n is None:
if fatal: