[extractor/common] Properly decode error string on python 2 (Closes #1354, closes #3957, closes #4037, closes #6449)

pull/7921/head
Sergey M․ 9 years ago
parent fa64a84311
commit dd85e4d707

@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ from ..utils import (
fix_xml_ampersands,
float_or_none,
int_or_none,
preferredencoding,
RegexNotFoundError,
sanitize_filename,
sanitized_Request,
@ -332,7 +333,12 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
return False
if errnote is None:
errnote = 'Unable to download webpage'
errmsg = '%s: %s' % (errnote, compat_str(err))
err_str = str(err)
# On python 2 error byte string must be decoded with proper
# encoding rather than ascii
if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
err_str = err_str.decode(preferredencoding())
errmsg = '%s: %s' % (errnote, err_str)
if fatal:
raise ExtractorError(errmsg, sys.exc_info()[2], cause=err)
else:

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