[utils] Clarify Python versions affected by buggy struct module
authorYen Chi Hsuan <yan12125@gmail.com>
Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:06:15 +0000 (18:06 +0800)
committerYen Chi Hsuan <yan12125@gmail.com>
Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:06:15 +0000 (18:06 +0800)
youtube_dl/utils.py

index 03bb7782f492daa247c6ababba6c975d5548d75e..b6e1dc8099f8d3e8f513b38303a282000e4932df 100644 (file)
@@ -1756,7 +1756,8 @@ def escape_url(url):
 try:
     struct.pack('!I', 0)
 except TypeError:
-    # In Python 2.6 (and some 2.7 versions), struct requires a bytes argument
+    # In Python 2.6 and 2.7.x < 2.7.7, struct requires a bytes argument
+    # See https://bugs.python.org/issue19099
     def struct_pack(spec, *args):
         if isinstance(spec, compat_str):
             spec = spec.encode('ascii')