From 1e5d87beee7683cbb75d12f8e52bddce5c5b7717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 10:32:44 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] [websocket] Make syntax error in `websockets` module
 non-fatal

Closes #2633
---
 yt_dlp/downloader/websocket.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/downloader/websocket.py b/yt_dlp/downloader/websocket.py
index 088222046..daac34884 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/downloader/websocket.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/downloader/websocket.py
@@ -5,9 +5,12 @@ import threading
 
 try:
     import websockets
-    has_websockets = True
-except ImportError:
+except (ImportError, SyntaxError):
+    # websockets 3.10 on python 3.6 causes SyntaxError
+    # See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/2633
     has_websockets = False
+else:
+    has_websockets = True
 
 from .common import FileDownloader
 from .external import FFmpegFD