youtube-dl is broken due to python error

[dinaras]

After upgrading to latest version i get the following

File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl", line 3510
except Exception as e:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Can it be resolved?

Thank you in advance

regards
Dinos

[phihag]

Oops, sorry! I'll add a test with python 2.5 ASAP so that we notice these issues.

This should be fixed in youtube-dl 2011.11.22.

[dinaras]

What am i supposed to do know, in order to make youtube-dl work again on my server?

I tried to copy and paste the code to /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl but again i get same error.
Is there a way i can downgrade or shall i just wait a bit more

Thank you in advance

By the way, thank you for all the work you are poutting in on this

Regards

Dinos

[phihag]

The webpage took a while to update. Both downloading from it or executing

sudo wget https://raw.github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/master/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

should work. Alternatively, you can switch to Python 2.6 or newer, which is a good idea anyways.