Error message (crash) with youtube-dl.py --U

[joeschmoe40]

This had been working fine - right up until it stopped working. Nothing changed on the system, so I assume there is something wrong with latest version.

Observe:

$ uname -a
Darwin ... 12.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.5.0: Sun Sep 29 13:33:47 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.48.12~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
$ python --version
Python 2.7.2
$ youtube-dl.py --version
2013.11.22.2
$ youtube-dl.py -U
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
File "/Users/.../bin/youtube-dl.py/main.py", line 18, in
File "/Users/.../bin/youtube-dl.py/youtube_dl/init.py", line 774, in main
File "/Users/.../bin/youtube-dl.py/youtube_dl/init.py", line 717, in _real_main
File "/Users/.../bin/youtube-dl.py/youtube_dl/update.py", line 89, in update_self
NameError: global name 'version_str' is not defined
$

[joeschmoe40]

Update: I was able to fix this by finding an old version of youtube-dl.py on another system, and using that to upgrade the system in question to: 2013.11.24.1

Still, would like to know what happened - and to note that since the program is self-updating, I have no idea how/where to download the program from "the net" and, in particular, how to get older versions.

If I hadn't had the older version on another system, I'd have been sc***ed.

[jaimeMF]

Sorry for the bug (reported and fixed in #1817).
About the second point, you had to download it the first time somehow, don't you? the same process should work ;)
Anyway, the instruction for installing youtube-dl are in http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html. If you want to get an specific version you just need to replace the version number with the one you prefer. You can also see all the available versions in https://yt-dl.org/downloads/

[joeschmoe40]

Yeah, I did download it a long, long time ago. My point is that I now have no idea when/where/how that was...

Thanks for the tips/URLs.