File Path Normalizing with --write-archive

[ingwinlu]

Hallo,

atm --write-archive does not normalize / expand a path when used, limiting to absolute paths which is not the same way youtube-dl handles for example the -o template.

The 'cheap' fix in the util.py file:

class locked_file(object):
def init(self, filename, mode, encoding=None):
assert mode in ['r', 'a', 'w']
self.f = io.open(os.path.expanduser(filename), mode, encoding=encoding)
self.mode = mode

[phihag]

Thanks for the report, fixed.

[ingwinlu]

Hi,

i just realized i lied to you, -o does NOT expand ~. I did that manually in my script. You might want to reverse this change then or use expanduser also on the -o option.

[jaimeMF]

~ is expanded with the -o option, if it doesn't work, that's a bug.

[ingwinlu]

Probably was some old relict in my script then,

thank you for your work on youtube-dl