use sys.stdout.buffer only on Python3

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / utils.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 901b5b5ad291686fa653ea39c3d4670d8b7b9dc8..49af7d7c081e759d0e560bf81bb086ba601babe8 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ def sanitize_open(filename, open_mode):
             if sys.platform == 'win32':
                 import msvcrt
                 msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
-            return (sys.stdout.buffer, filename)
+            return (sys.stdout.buffer if hasattr(sys.stdout, 'buffer') else sys.stdout, filename)
         stream = open(encodeFilename(filename), open_mode)
         return (stream, filename)
     except (IOError, OSError) as err: