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From: =?utf8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?=
 <jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 13:34:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix initialization of YoutubeDL with params set to None
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Set it to an empty dictionary because it’s directly accessed when setting some properties
---
 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 a9a3639d7..738304193 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
 
     def __init__(self, params=None):
         """Create a FileDownloader object with the given options."""
+        if params is None:
+            params = {}
         self._ies = []
         self._ies_instances = {}
         self._pps = []
@@ -172,7 +174,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
         self._num_downloads = 0
         self._screen_file = [sys.stdout, sys.stderr][params.get('logtostderr', False)]
         self._err_file = sys.stderr
-        self.params = {} if params is None else params
+        self.params = params
 
         if params.get('bidi_workaround', False):
             try:
-- 
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