BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe, in combination with head

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Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.05.16
• 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

$ youtube-dl -v --list-extractors | head

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--list-extractors']
1tv
20min
220.ro
23video
247sports
24video
3qsdn
3sat
4tube
56.com
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('youtube-dl==2021.5.16', 'console_scripts', 'youtube-dl')())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 475, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 104, in _real_main
    write_string(ie.IE_NAME + (' (CURRENTLY BROKEN)' if not ie._WORKING else '') + '\n', out=sys.stdout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 3232, in write_string
    out.flush()
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
Exception ignored in: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'>
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

Description

"youtube-dl --list-extractors | head" ends with a BrokenPipeError

Looks like the cause and solution are described here and here