From: Ricardo Constantino <wiiaboo@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:05:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: utils.py: Workaround TypeError with Python 2.7.13 in Windows
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utils.py: Workaround TypeError with Python 2.7.13 in Windows

Fixes #11540

Tested with Windows Python 2.7.12 and 2.7.13.
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index a81fe7d30..1279a9042 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1684,6 +1684,11 @@ def setproctitle(title):
         libc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary('libc.so.6')
     except OSError:
         return
+    except TypeError:
+        # LoadLibrary in Windows Python 2.7.13 only expects
+        # a bytestring, but since unicode_literals turns
+        # every string into a unicode string, it fails.
+        return
     title_bytes = title.encode('utf-8')
     buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(len(title_bytes))
     buf.value = title_bytes