Merge pull request #12085 from wiiaboo/python2

utils.py: Workaround TypeError with Python 2.7.13 in Windows
ytdl-org · Feb 11, 2017 · f391545 · f391545
2 parents 68c22c4 + 2f49bcd
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1684,6 +1684,11 @@ def setproctitle(title):
         libc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary('libc.so.6')
     except OSError:
         return
+    except TypeError:
+        # LoadLibrary in Windows Python 2.7.13 only expects
+        # a bytestring, but since unicode_literals turns
+        # every string into a unicode string, it fails.
+        return
     title_bytes = title.encode('utf-8')
     buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(len(title_bytes))
     buf.value = title_bytes