Merge pull request #8130 from dyn888/master

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / compat.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index 4e3de7f5170022bbab637b8163cd0d67cc00719e..8ab6880011f6084cc1b28d928dec904740c0c6ff 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/compat.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py
@@ -198,14 +198,6 @@ except ImportError:  # Python < 3.4
 
             return compat_urllib_response.addinfourl(io.BytesIO(data), headers, url)
 
-
-# Prepend protocol-less URLs with `http:` scheme in order to mitigate the number of
-# unwanted failures due to missing protocol
-def compat_urllib_request_Request(url, *args, **kwargs):
-    return compat_urllib_request.Request(
-        'http:%s' % url if url.startswith('//') else url, *args, **kwargs)
-
-
 try:
     compat_basestring = basestring  # Python 2
 except NameError:
@@ -441,7 +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