From 2f49bcd69076626db1b789192dd113458b1eb01c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Constantino <wiiaboo@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:05:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] utils.py: Workaround TypeError with Python 2.7.13 in Windows
Fixes #11540
Tested with Windows Python 2.7.12 and 2.7.13.
---
youtube_dl/utils.py | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index a81fe7d30..1279a9042 100644
--- 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