YoutubeSearchIE: the query is a str, in python 3 it fails if decode is called

11 years ago · f380401bbd
parent 9abc6c8b31
commit f380401bbd
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--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@ -1424,7 +1424,6 @@ class YoutubeSearchIE(SearchInfoExtractor):

    def report_download_page(self, query, pagenum):
        """Report attempt to download search page with given number."""
-        query = query.decode(preferredencoding())
        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] query "%s": Downloading page %s' % (query, pagenum))

    def _get_n_results(self, query, n):