sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\x98' in file ./youtube-dl

[andrewhilson]

sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\x98' in file ./youtube-dl on line 3, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
File "./youtube-dl", line 2
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SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[phihag]

What is the output of python --version? This looks like you may have an outdated version of Python. As mentioned on our homepage as well as the FAQ, you need Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 or newer.

I'm closing this issue now because I'm certain that that is the problem, but feel free to comment, and I'll reopen it if necessary.

[andrewhilson]

python --version
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jan 9 2013, 06:47:03)

Ah, good call. I forgot to include python2.7