Merge pull request #7045 from remitamine/ign

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / utils.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 6d31197606bf67bc2686b24a956a21a2536abd73..1737ac5f6d72a3d53d6454f8eac98bda5032e285 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1712,6 +1712,10 @@ def encode_dict(d, encoding='utf-8'):
     return dict((encode(k), encode(v)) for k, v in d.items())
 
 
+def encode_compat_str(string, encoding=preferredencoding(), errors='strict'):
+    return string if isinstance(string, compat_str) else compat_str(string, encoding, errors)
+
+
 US_RATINGS = {
     'G': 0,
     'PG': 10,
@@ -1806,7 +1810,7 @@ def args_to_str(args):
     return ' '.join(shlex_quote(a) for a in args)
 
 
-def error_to_str(err):
+def error_to_compat_str(err):
     err_str = str(err)
     # On python 2 error byte string must be decoded with proper
     # encoding rather than ascii