Non-ASCII Character error?

[NickWinston123]

root@Nicks-Kali:/Music# youtube-dl https://ormolycka.bandcamp.com/album/pistol-disko-2004-2011-oo43
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl", line 2
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe3' in file /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl on line 3, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details
root@Nicks-Kali:/Music# youtube-dl -U
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl", line 2
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe3' in file /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl on line 3, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

root@Nicks-Kali:~/Music# apt-get install python2.7
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python2.7 is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libav-tools libavfilter5 libcg libcggl libportaudiocpp0 nvidia-cg-dev
nvidia-cg-toolkit rtmpdump
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.

[yan12125]

Does the system default python version 2.6 or above? Check it with the following command:

$ python --version

[NickWinston123]

@yan12125 Thanks for the response, this is what I get when entering that in.

root@Nicks-Kali:~# python --version
Python 2.7.9

EDIT: Oh it looks like its working now, just did a reboot and reinstall. Thanks!

[yan12125]

Closing as the problem is solved. Feel free to open a new issue if there are other problems.

A side note: DO NOT run youtube-dl as root unless you're updating it. Running as root introduces unnecessary security risks.

[ctrlcctrlv]

I have the same problem on FreeBSD 10.1...

master% youtube-dl
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl", line 2
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe3' in file /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl on line 3, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details
master% uname -a
FreeBSD master 10.1-RELEASE-p16 FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p16 #0: Tue Jul 28 12:04:19 UTC 2015     root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
master% python2 --version
Python 2.7.10

[ctrlcctrlv]

Adding a -*- coding: utf-8 -*- does not help

master% youtube-dl                   
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl", line 3
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      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Why is this even being distributed in binary form, it's a Python script. :\

[ctrlcctrlv]

Install from pip works

master# rm /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
master# pip install youtube-dl
You are using pip version 7.0.3, however version 7.1.2 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
Collecting youtube-dl
  Downloading youtube_dl-2015.08.28-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.0MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.0MB 246kB/s   
Installing collected packages: youtube-dl
Successfully installed youtube-dl-2015.8.28
master# youtube-dl
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options.
master# which youtube-dl
/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

And /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl is not a binary if you install from pip. Weird...

[ctrlcctrlv]

OK, I've solved the mystery...

Somehow my download got corrupted or someone is doing something nasty on my network.

c1f528b2412c108afebc2524773192a8f45f3b63345d6d30c75e1ed7d5062140 youtube-dl # BAD YOUTUBE-DL
3f6a925fc4f324de8f5e2ca8aad1b47408a11b83fee29ae15f6ece2ffb804f10 youtube-dl # WORKING YOUTUBE-DL

Thanks.