[compat] Clarify the versions requiring compat_kwargs

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / compat.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index 2d43ec852ca2cfa41cf702fb7aac28fbee11bec6..8ab6880011f6084cc1b28d928dec904740c0c6ff 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/compat.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py
@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ except ImportError:  # Python 2.6
 if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
     compat_etree_fromstring = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring
 else:
-    # on python 2.x the attributes and text of a node aren't always unicode
-    # objects
+    # python 2.x tries to encode unicode strings with ascii (see the
+    # XMLParser._fixtext method)
     etree = xml.etree.ElementTree
 
     try:
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ if sys.version_info < (3, 0) and sys.platform == 'win32':
 else:
     compat_getpass = getpass.getpass
 
-# Old 2.6 and 2.7 releases require kwargs to be bytes
+# Python < 2.6.5 require kwargs to be bytes
 try:
     def _testfunc(x):
         pass