Youtube-dl fails on load_entry_point and importlib_load_entry_point

[mor3dr3ad]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.09.20
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
• I've read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('youtube-dl==2020.9.20', 'console_scripts', 'youtube-dl')())
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
    return next(matches).load()
StopIteration

Description

youtube-dl does not start and throws traceback above. vanilla installation from pacman. not even -v works, so cannot post more log.

anyone seen similar issues?