Use a wrapper around xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring in python 2.x (#7178)

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / extractor / common.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 10c0d5d1f91f49846176d28a0edfb8f3cfa61801..52523d7b249210eed88d334c2fefe28cabe78706 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import re
 import socket
 import sys
 import time
-import xml.etree.ElementTree
 
 from ..compat import (
     compat_cookiejar,
@@ -23,6 +22,7 @@ from ..compat import (
     compat_urllib_request,
     compat_urlparse,
     compat_str,
+    compat_etree_fromstring,
 )
 from ..utils import (
     NO_DEFAULT,
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
             return xml_string
         if transform_source:
             xml_string = transform_source(xml_string)
-        return xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(xml_string.encode('utf-8'))
+        return compat_etree_fromstring(xml_string.encode('utf-8'))
 
     def _download_json(self, url_or_request, video_id,
                        note='Downloading JSON metadata',