X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=youtube_dl%2Fextractor%2Fcommon.py;h=828f58f126393531f1f0481faeff473e68b3ecb1;hb=9f0ee2a3883ec6f6fdccba90085cb925aaa2f617;hp=eb9bfa3d15a2c5084fbf67f05a401474ad2f881d;hpb=46b4070f3f8cbe2b66baadb2927eba03fbdd1129;p=youtube-dl

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index eb9bfa3d1..828f58f12 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ from ..utils import (
     clean_html,
     compiled_regex_type,
     determine_ext,
+    error_to_compat_str,
     ExtractorError,
     fix_xml_ampersands,
     float_or_none,
@@ -167,7 +168,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                     "ext" will be calculated from URL if missing
     automatic_captions: Like 'subtitles', used by the YoutubeIE for
                     automatically generated captions
-    duration:       Length of the video in seconds, as an integer.
+    duration:       Length of the video in seconds, as an integer or float.
     view_count:     How many users have watched the video on the platform.
     like_count:     Number of positive ratings of the video
     dislike_count:  Number of negative ratings of the video
@@ -332,7 +333,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                 return False
             if errnote is None:
                 errnote = 'Unable to download webpage'
-            errmsg = '%s: %s' % (errnote, compat_str(err))
+
+            errmsg = '%s: %s' % (errnote, error_to_compat_str(err))
             if fatal:
                 raise ExtractorError(errmsg, sys.exc_info()[2], cause=err)
             else:
@@ -622,7 +624,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                 else:
                     raise netrc.NetrcParseError('No authenticators for %s' % self._NETRC_MACHINE)
             except (IOError, netrc.NetrcParseError) as err:
-                self._downloader.report_warning('parsing .netrc: %s' % compat_str(err))
+                self._downloader.report_warning('parsing .netrc: %s' % error_to_compat_str(err))
 
         return (username, password)