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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/utils.py9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 5b396ede8..6d3119760 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1806,6 +1806,15 @@ def args_to_str(args):
return ' '.join(shlex_quote(a) for a in args)
+def error_to_str(err):
+ err_str = str(err)
+ # On python 2 error byte string must be decoded with proper
+ # encoding rather than ascii
+ if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
+ err_str = err_str.decode(preferredencoding())
+ return err_str
+
+
def mimetype2ext(mt):
_, _, res = mt.rpartition('/')