Fix "invalid escape sequences" error on Python 3.6

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / compat.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index 83ee7e25747532c61f344aaea921021690669f61..02abf8c1e40e4f3a3a8b254e3e8a8c127058729d 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/compat.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py
@@ -2344,7 +2344,7 @@ try:
     from urllib.parse import unquote_plus as compat_urllib_parse_unquote_plus
 except ImportError:  # Python 2
     _asciire = (compat_urllib_parse._asciire if hasattr(compat_urllib_parse, '_asciire')
-                else re.compile('([\x00-\x7f]+)'))
+                else re.compile(r'([\x00-\x7f]+)'))
 
     # HACK: The following are the correct unquote_to_bytes, unquote and unquote_plus
     # implementations from cpython 3.4.3's stdlib. Python 2's version