From b061ea6e9f49ef2f80e8dac6413088b1b83cc92d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:48:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [compat] Beautify assertion

---
 youtube_dl/compat.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index 2983501ae..27596687d 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/compat.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ def compat_print(s):
         print(s.encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace'))
 else:
     def compat_print(s):
-        assert type(s) == type(u'')
+        assert isinstance(s, compat_str)
         print(s)