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Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl')
-rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/utils.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py index 16bf49408..1973bd483 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/utils.py +++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import xml.etree.ElementTree import zlib from .compat import ( + compat_HTMLParseError, compat_HTMLParser, compat_basestring, compat_chr, @@ -409,8 +410,12 @@ def extract_attributes(html_element): but the cases in the unit test will work for all of 2.6, 2.7, 3.2-3.5. """ parser = HTMLAttributeParser() - parser.feed(html_element) - parser.close() + try: + parser.feed(html_element) + parser.close() + # Older Python may throw HTMLParseError in case of malformed HTML + except compat_HTMLParseError: + pass return parser.attrs |