From d74bebd50263a2f744595b9a54825914bc07657b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:11:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [utils] Apply 2.6 xpath craziness

This fixes ARD on 2.6
---
 youtube_dl/utils.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 7536b3b36..247788078 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -305,6 +305,9 @@ def xpath_with_ns(path, ns_map):
 
 
 def xpath_text(node, xpath, name=None, fatal=False):
+    if sys.version_info < (2, 7):  # Crazy 2.6
+        xpath = xpath.encode('ascii')
+
     n = node.find(xpath)
     if n is None:
         if fatal:
-- 
2.22.2