Upgrading python will make youtube-dl faster ?

[TheGr33k]

I am using centos 6 on by server and it ships with python 2.6.6 by default.I was wondering whether upgrading the python to the latest version(3.4.1) would have some performance benefits as far as youtube-dl is concerned

It would be nice if you could refer me to some good tutorial so that i can update python to latest version and make youtube-dl use it without breaking yum .

[phihag]

No, in general using a more modern version of Python will not bring major speed increases.

youtube-dl will have to jump through more hoops if the version is older, but that code shouldn't impact performance too much either.

How you install Python is out of scope for youtube-dl. As always, you are free to download and compile it yourself. You can then simply install it - say, to /usr/local/bin/python3.4 and run youtube-dl with /usr/local/bin/python3.4 $(which youtube-dl) (in order to not have to type that every time, you can define an alias).