From c6afed48ff0a5b42d14227bd7e52e009345776e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:30:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [YoutubeDL] guard against strange sys.stdouts

---
 youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index 7951001fa..5c875b497 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -1306,11 +1306,13 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
             self.report_warning(
                 'Your Python is broken! Update to a newer and supported version')
 
+        stdout_encoding = getattr(
+            sys.stdout, 'encoding', 'missing (%s)' % type(sys.stdout).__name__)
         encoding_str = (
             '[debug] Encodings: locale %s, fs %s, out %s, pref %s\n' % (
                 locale.getpreferredencoding(),
                 sys.getfilesystemencoding(),
-                sys.stdout.encoding,
+                stdout_encoding,
                 self.get_encoding()))
         write_string(encoding_str, encoding=None)
 
-- 
2.22.2