YoutubeIE when no description is found use an empty unicode string (closes #800)

11 years ago · 69fc019f26
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
        if video_description:
            video_description = clean_html(video_description)
        else:
-            video_description = ''
+            video_description = u''

        # subtitles
        video_subtitles = None