From: Remita Amine <remitamine@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2021 06:54:02 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: [extractor/common] fix _get_cookies method for python 2(#20673, #23256, #20326, close... 
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[extractor/common] fix _get_cookies method for python 2(#20673, #23256, #20326, closes #28640)
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index d3b6724df..fcbf18ee6 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -2899,7 +2899,10 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
         """ Return a compat_cookies.SimpleCookie with the cookies for the url """
         req = sanitized_Request(url)
         self._downloader.cookiejar.add_cookie_header(req)
-        return compat_cookies.SimpleCookie(req.get_header('Cookie'))
+        cookie = req.get_header('Cookie')
+        if cookie and sys.version_info[0] == 2:
+            cookie = str(cookie)
+        return compat_cookies.SimpleCookie(cookie)
 
     def _apply_first_set_cookie_header(self, url_handle, cookie):
         """