youtube-dl

commit acfccacad5555c21d649729c5e2cb237a70f46e6
parent 5f2c2b7936eb092e482309a5b9aa036028dbab2c
Author: Remita Amine <remitamine@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 13 Aug 2016 10:26:02 +0100

[downloader/external:curl] Clarify why CurlFD should not capture stderr

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youtube_dl/downloader/external.py
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1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ class CurlFD(ExternalFD):
 
         self._debug_cmd(cmd)
 
+        # curl writes the progress to stderr so don't capture it.
         p = subprocess.Popen(cmd)
         p.communicate()
         return p.returncode