From 92b91c18780938283c505f5662c458e049bf3567 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 04:23:20 +0100
Subject: Use character instead of byte strings

---
 youtube_dl/utils.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'youtube_dl/utils.py')

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 6f53337d4..658fd2686 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ std_headers = {
 	'Accept-Language': 'en-us,en;q=0.5',
 }
 
+try:
+    compat_str = unicode # Python 2
+except NameError:
+    compat_str = str
+
 def preferredencoding():
 	"""Get preferred encoding.
 
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