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Diffstat (limited to 'yt_dlp/utils/_utils.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | yt_dlp/utils/_utils.py | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/yt_dlp/utils/_utils.py b/yt_dlp/utils/_utils.py index d8b74423a..49944e9d2 100644 --- a/yt_dlp/utils/_utils.py +++ b/yt_dlp/utils/_utils.py @@ -1424,7 +1424,8 @@ def write_string(s, out=None, encoding=None): s = re.sub(r'([\r\n]+)', r' \1', s) enc, buffer = None, out - if 'b' in getattr(out, 'mode', ''): + # `mode` might be `None` (Ref: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/8816) + if 'b' in (getattr(out, 'mode', None) or ''): enc = encoding or preferredencoding() elif hasattr(out, 'buffer'): buffer = out.buffer |