Use character instead of byte strings

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / utils.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index a64937b4c12077fef92c95d0ddd36e30de0e8917..658fd2686b8534e834c34872883fd26d3d820cde 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ std_headers = {
        'Accept-Language': 'en-us,en;q=0.5',
 }
 
+try:
+    compat_str = unicode # Python 2
+except NameError:
+    compat_str = str
+
 def preferredencoding():
        """Get preferred encoding.
 
@@ -83,7 +88,6 @@ class IDParser(HTMLParser.HTMLParser):
                HTMLParser.HTMLParser.__init__(self)
 
        def error(self, message):
-               print >> sys.stderr, self.getpos()
                if self.error_count > 10 or self.started:
                        raise HTMLParser.HTMLParseError(message, self.getpos())
                self.rawdata = '\n'.join(self.html.split('\n')[self.getpos()[0]:]) # skip one line