[utils] Make random_ipv4 return unicode string

[youtube-dl.git] / youtube_dl / utils.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 4e76b6b7be709e4d6274f65a8ef8175b436cddc2..cbf7639c56393f21bd259ee30e294d1db704fb6b 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -3290,8 +3290,8 @@ class GeoUtils(object):
         addr, preflen = block.split('/')
         addr_min = compat_struct_unpack('!L', socket.inet_aton(addr))[0]
         addr_max = addr_min | (0xffffffff >> int(preflen))
-        return socket.inet_ntoa(
-            compat_struct_pack('!I', random.randint(addr_min, addr_max)))
+        return compat_str(socket.inet_ntoa(
+            compat_struct_pack('!I', random.randint(addr_min, addr_max))))
 
 
 class PerRequestProxyHandler(compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler):