youtube-dl

commit 9ab3406ddb84a84a80f1be788af745d5a407ae23
parent 1b91a2e2cfa3b9277205eb9652e5a2f0b40a0016
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date:   Wed, 23 May 2012 19:19:31 +0200

Fix Escapist IE

Diffstat:
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youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
 | 
3
++-

1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -2188,11 +2188,12 @@ class EscapistIE(InfoExtractor):
 
 		self.report_extraction(showName)
 		try:
-			webPage = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
+			webPageBytes = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
 		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: ' + unicode(err))
 			return
 
+		webPage = webPageBytes.decode('utf-8')
 		descMatch = re.search('<meta name="description" content="([^"]*)"', webPage)
 		description = unescapeHTML(descMatch.group(1))
 		imgMatch = re.search('<meta property="og:image" content="([^"]*)"', webPage)