From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 00:24:50 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: [YoutubeDL] Make sure we really, really get out the encoding string
X-Git-Tag: 2014.07.23.2~1
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b0472057a3977c6d23cb39ae645fcec17ea0f39b;p=youtube-dl.git

[YoutubeDL] Make sure we really, really get out the encoding string

Fixes #3326
Apparently, on some platforms, even outputting this fails already.
---

diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index 686988fe5b..f5ca33d453 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -1234,14 +1234,21 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
         if not self.params.get('verbose'):
             return
 
-        write_string(
+        encoding_str = (
             '[debug] Encodings: locale %s, fs %s, out %s, pref %s\n' % (
                 locale.getpreferredencoding(),
                 sys.getfilesystemencoding(),
                 sys.stdout.encoding,
-                self.get_encoding()),
-            encoding=None
-        )
+                self.get_encoding()))
+        try:
+            write_string(encoding_str, encoding=None)
+        except:
+            errmsg = 'Failed to write encoding string %r' % encoding_str
+            try:
+                sys.stdout.write(errmsg)
+            except:
+                pass
+            raise IOError(errmsg)
 
         self._write_string('[debug] youtube-dl version ' + __version__ + '\n')
         try: