From: Ricardo Constantino Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:05:09 +0000 (+0000) Subject: utils.py: Workaround TypeError with Python 2.7.13 in Windows X-Git-Url: http://git.oshgnacknak.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2f49bcd69076626db1b789192dd113458b1eb01c;p=youtube-dl utils.py: Workaround TypeError with Python 2.7.13 in Windows Fixes #11540 Tested with Windows Python 2.7.12 and 2.7.13. --- diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py index a81fe7d30..1279a9042 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/utils.py +++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py @@ -1684,6 +1684,11 @@ def setproctitle(title): libc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary('libc.so.6') except OSError: return + except TypeError: + # LoadLibrary in Windows Python 2.7.13 only expects + # a bytestring, but since unicode_literals turns + # every string into a unicode string, it fails. + return title_bytes = title.encode('utf-8') buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(len(title_bytes)) buf.value = title_bytes