Do not mutate default arguments

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / YoutubeDL.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index 87635e173c9c9edeebae81fd94e470de396cfafd..b822930cbe358226c70b514287509d391adc116c 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
     noplaylist:        Download single video instead of a playlist if in doubt.
     age_limit:         An integer representing the user's age in years.
                        Unsuitable videos for the given age are skipped.
-    downloadarchive:   File name of a file where all downloads are recorded.
+    download_archive:   File name of a file where all downloads are recorded.
                        Videos already present in the file are not downloaded
                        again.
     cookiefile:        File name where cookies should be read from and dumped to.
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
     _num_downloads = None
     _screen_file = None
 
-    def __init__(self, params={}):
+    def __init__(self, params=None):
         """Create a FileDownloader object with the given options."""
         self._ies = []
         self._ies_instances = {}
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
         self._download_retcode = 0
         self._num_downloads = 0
         self._screen_file = [sys.stdout, sys.stderr][params.get('logtostderr', False)]
+        self.params = {} if params is None else params
 
         if (sys.version_info >= (3,) and sys.platform != 'win32' and
                 sys.getfilesystemencoding() in ['ascii', 'ANSI_X3.4-1968']
@@ -164,9 +165,8 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                 u'Assuming --restrict-filenames since file system encoding '
                 u'cannot encode all charactes. '
                 u'Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.')
-            params['restrictfilenames'] = True
+            self.params['restrictfilenames'] = True
 
-        self.params = params
         self.fd = FileDownloader(self, self.params)
 
         if '%(stitle)s' in self.params.get('outtmpl', ''):
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
     def _make_archive_id(self, info_dict):
         # Future-proof against any change in case
         # and backwards compatibility with prior versions
-        extractor = info_dict.get('extractor')
+        extractor = info_dict.get('extractor_key')
         if extractor is None:
             if 'id' in info_dict:
                 extractor = info_dict.get('ie_key')  # key in a playlist