Sytax error on CentOS

[techzombie432]

I get this error when I run youtube-dl

sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\x93' in file /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl on line 3, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl", line 2
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SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I have tried updating python and using your latest version

sudo wget --no-check-certificate http://raw.github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/master/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

Please help,

Your app IS THE BEST and I want to use it desperately.

[phihag]

That's strange, we should declare an encoding. I'll look into it.

[techzombie432]

awesome , thank you.

is there anything I can do in the meantime as a hack?

[phihag]

Oh, sorry, should've seen it right away. It looks like your version of Python is severely outdated. Can you update to 2.6 or newer? Also, what version of CentOS are you running?

As a workaround, you can just unzip the file and create a symlink youtube-dl, like this:

wget http://raw.github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/master/youtube-dl -O youtube-dl.zip
unzip -d ytdl youtube-dl.zip
ln -s ytdl/__main__.py youtube-dl
./youtube-dl

[techzombie432]

it works!!

I am sorry to have wasted your time with this.

I just installed a fresh python 2.7.3 and it works now.
I ran an update python on yum but it did not work before
It seems there is some issue with centOS and python, cent os needs the ld version for some admin tools so u must install the latest python from scratch . Here is what I used

wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.6/Python-2.6.6.tgz
tar -zxvf Python-2.6.6.tgz
cd Python-2.6.6
./configure && make && make install

Add the install path (/usr/local/bin/python : by default) to ~/.bash_profile

It will not break yum or any other things which are dependent on python24.

Hope this helps other centOS users.

thank y