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authorJaime Marquínez Ferrándiz <jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>2015-10-29 13:58:40 +0100
committerJaime Marquínez Ferrándiz <jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>2015-10-29 13:58:40 +0100
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[compat] compat_etree_fromstring: clarify comment
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/compat.py4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index 2d43ec852..a3e85264a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/compat.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py
@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ except ImportError:  # Python 2.6
 if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
     compat_etree_fromstring = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring
 else:
-    # on python 2.x the attributes and text of a node aren't always unicode
-    # objects
+    # python 2.x tries to encode unicode strings with ascii (see the
+    # XMLParser._fixtext method)
     etree = xml.etree.ElementTree
 
     try: