From 541168039d8f3e7680a15cc366fcc94335308d81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?= Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 11:01:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [utils] get_exe_version: encode executable name (fixes #5647) It failed in python 2.x when $PATH contains a directory with non-ascii characters. --- youtube_dl/utils.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py index 1013f7c187..de09b53b2d 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/utils.py +++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py @@ -1380,7 +1380,7 @@ def get_exe_version(exe, args=['--version'], or False if the executable is not present """ try: out, _ = subprocess.Popen( - [exe] + args, + [encodeArgument(exe)] + args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).communicate() except OSError: return False