WARNING: "id" field is not a string - forcing string conversion, there is an error in extractor

[YehudaBialik]

python 2.7.10 installed using pyenv
pip version 9.0.3

in virtualenv pip install youtube-dl

pip show youtube_dl
Name: youtube-dl
Version: 2018.4.3
Summary: YouTube video downloader
Home-page: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl
Author: Sergey M.
Author-email: dstftw@gmail.com
License: Unlicense
Location: /Users/USER/python_projects/ydlgui-project/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Requires:

from __future__ import unicode_literals
import youtube_dl

def get_title():
    "This function gets the title from a YouTube video"
    with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL() as ydl:
        result = ydl.extract_info(
			entry.get(),
			download = False
	    )
    video = result
    print(video['title'])

entry.get() = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOKGJvLENqI

[youtube] YOKGJvLENqI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] YOKGJvLENqI: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] YOKGJvLENqI: Extracting video information
WARNING: "id" field is not a string - forcing string conversion, there is an error in extractor
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***Sorry, I'm not experienced with python enough to get debug logs from it, or any other logs for that matter.

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKcj']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.04.03
[debug] Python version 2.7.11 - Windows-2003Server-5.2.3790-SP2
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-75573-g1d0487f, ffprobe N-75573-g1d0487f, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
...
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• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

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I'm not sure if this WARNING is something that I need to worry about or not, but I thought I'd let y'all know.