From 2f49bcd69076626db1b789192dd113458b1eb01c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Constantino <wiiaboo@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:05:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] utils.py: Workaround TypeError with Python 2.7.13 in Windows

Fixes #11540

Tested with Windows Python 2.7.12 and 2.7.13.
---
 youtube_dl/utils.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

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