[utils] Clarify Python versions affected by buggy struct module

8 years ago · 622d19160b
parent 32d88410eb
commit 622d19160b
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@ -1756,7 +1756,8 @@ def escape_url(url):
 try:
    struct.pack('!I', 0)
 except TypeError:
-    # In Python 2.6 (and some 2.7 versions), struct requires a bytes argument
+    # In Python 2.6 and 2.7.x < 2.7.7, struct requires a bytes argument
+    # See https://bugs.python.org/issue19099
    def struct_pack(spec, *args):
        if isinstance(spec, compat_str):
            spec = spec.encode('ascii')