New 2015.07.18 fails in Python 2.7

[jamieson99]

Awesome module. I have it embedded in a couple of scripts. here's what it just started doing (Python 2.7 on Debian 8)

Collecting youtube-dl
  Downloading youtube_dl-2015.07.18-py2.py3-none-any.whl (993kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 995kB 159kB/s 
Installing collected packages: youtube-dl
  Found existing installation: youtube-dl 2015.6.15
    Uninstalling youtube-dl-2015.6.15:
      Successfully uninstalled youtube-dl-2015.6.15
Successfully installed youtube-dl-2015.7.18

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl", line 7, in <module>
    from youtube_dl import main
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from .options import (
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/options.py", line 8, in <module>
    from .downloader.external import list_external_downloaders
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from .common import FileDownloader
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 8, in <module>
    from ..compat import compat_str
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 82, in <module>
    _asciire = re.compile('([\x00-\x7f]+)') if sys.version_info < (2, 7) else compat_urllib_parse._asciire
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '_asciire'

[dstftw]

This is already fixed and will be available in the next version.
You can also fix this by updating python to 2.7.4 or later. Or you can use previous version https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2015.07.07/youtube-dl.

[jamieson99]

Awesome, thanks @dstftw !!