"-o my-output-template" does not work with Python3

[vain]

When running youtube-dl with Python3, the parameter "-o" is broken:

$ youtube-dl -o my-output-template 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whatever'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/runpy.py", line 160, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/runpy.py", line 73, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 17, in <module>
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 596, in main
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 523, in _real_main
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

With Python2, it's fine.

Running youtube-dl on Arch Linux (Python 3.3.0). Let me know if you need further information.

Thanks!

[xyproto]

Corresponding Arch Linux bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33097

[phihag]

I believe this has been fixed in git, and will be in the next release. Thanks for reporting! Unfortunately, we just enabled basic Python 3 support at all, and are still in the process of fixing quite a lot of bugs.