[youtube] Fix playlist and feed extraction (closes #25675)

[youtube-dl] / devscripts / make_readme.py

diff --git a/devscripts/make_readme.py b/devscripts/make_readme.py
index a24b9b1d805d111d6c4c41c65a37e33736fe9ec0..8fbce07967c177217f5d39162d9f0958f1d41bf5 100755 (executable)
--- a/devscripts/make_readme.py
+++ b/devscripts/make_readme.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import io
 import sys
 import re
@@ -5,14 +7,17 @@ import re
 README_FILE = 'README.md'
 helptext = sys.stdin.read()
 
+if isinstance(helptext, bytes):
+    helptext = helptext.decode('utf-8')
+
 with io.open(README_FILE, encoding='utf-8') as f:
     oldreadme = f.read()
 
 header = oldreadme[:oldreadme.index('# OPTIONS')]
 footer = oldreadme[oldreadme.index('# CONFIGURATION'):]
 
-options = helptext[helptext.index('  General Options:')+19:]
-options = re.sub(r'^  (\w.+)$', r'## \1', options, flags=re.M)
+options = helptext[helptext.index('  General Options:') + 19:]
+options = re.sub(r'(?m)^  (\w.+)$', r'## \1', options)
 options = '# OPTIONS\n' + options + '\n'
 
 with io.open(README_FILE, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f: