Improve error handling of bad config files

Related: #824
2025-12-17 06:35:42 +07:00 · 2022-06-18 09:17:45 +05:30
parent bf1824b391
commit 44a6fcff39
2 changed files with 12 additions and 6 deletions
--- a/yt_dlp/utils.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/utils.py
@@ -5420,6 +5420,8 @@ def read_file(filename, default=[]):
            # FIXME: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/dfe5fa49aed02cf36ba9f743b11b0903554b5e56
            contents = optionf.read()
            res = shlex.split(contents, comments=True)
+        except Exception as err:
+            raise ValueError(f'Unable to parse "{filename}": {err}')
        finally:
            optionf.close()
        return res