Make sure URLs are always character strings (Fixes #2051)

2014-01-05 05:24:50 +01:00
parent 3e34db3170
commit c774b3c696
1 changed files with 2 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/youtube_dl/init.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/init.py
@@ -522,6 +522,8 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
            sys.exit(u'ERROR: batch file could not be read')
    all_urls = batchurls + args
    all_urls = [url.strip() for url in all_urls]
+    _enc = preferredencoding()
+    all_urls = [url.decode(_enc, 'ignore') if isinstance(url, bytes) else url]

    extractors = gen_extractors()