Correct JSON writing (Closes #596)

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / FileDownloader.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
index e8c62ce07adbff3b10942c0d21700b06592bdad1..be70ec7557b15625506d73d5de401a9a72f9f30a 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
@@ -454,9 +454,8 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
                 self.trouble(u'ERROR: No JSON encoder found. Update to Python 2.6+, setup a json module, or leave out --write-info-json.')
                 return
             try:
-                with io.open(encodeFilename(infofn), 'w', 'utf-8') as infof:
-                    json_info_dict = dict((k, v) for k,v in info_dict.items() if not k in ['urlhandle'])
-                    json.dump(json_info_dict, infof)
+                json_info_dict = dict((k, v) for k,v in info_dict.items() if not k in ['urlhandle'])
+                write_json_file(json_info_dict, encodeFilename(infofn))
             except (OSError, IOError):
                 self.trouble(u'ERROR: Cannot write metadata to JSON file ' + infofn)
                 return