diff --git a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
index 08bd83354..9feff9bb0 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
@@ -364,17 +364,17 @@ def process_info(self, info_dict):
 
 		# Forced printings
 		if self.params.get('forcetitle', False):
-			print info_dict['title'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+			print(info_dict['title'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace'))
 		if self.params.get('forceurl', False):
-			print info_dict['url'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+			print(info_dict['url'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace'))
 		if self.params.get('forcethumbnail', False) and 'thumbnail' in info_dict:
-			print info_dict['thumbnail'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+			print(info_dict['thumbnail'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace'))
 		if self.params.get('forcedescription', False) and 'description' in info_dict:
-			print info_dict['description'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+			print(info_dict['description'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace'))
 		if self.params.get('forcefilename', False) and filename is not None:
-			print filename.encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+			print(filename.encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace'))
 		if self.params.get('forceformat', False):
-			print info_dict['format'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace')
+			print(info_dict['format'].encode(preferredencoding(), 'xmlcharrefreplace'))
 
 		# Do nothing else if in simulate mode
 		if self.params.get('simulate', False):
diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index d2d8d7b77..13cf034ef 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -213,9 +213,9 @@ def _closed_captions_xml_to_srt(self, xml_string):
 		return srt
 
 	def _print_formats(self, formats):
-		print 'Available formats:'
+		print('Available formats:')
 		for x in formats:
-			print '%s\t:\t%s\t[%s]' %(x, self._video_extensions.get(x, 'flv'), self._video_dimensions.get(x, '???'))
+			print('%s\t:\t%s\t[%s]' %(x, self._video_extensions.get(x, 'flv'), self._video_dimensions.get(x, '???')))
 
 	def _real_initialize(self):
 		if self._downloader is None:
@@ -2796,15 +2796,15 @@ def check_urls(self, url_list):
 		return None
 
 	def _print_formats(self, formats):
-		print 'Available formats:'
+		print('Available formats:')
 		for fmt in formats.keys():
 			for b in formats[fmt]:
 				try:
 					ext = formats[fmt][b][0]
-					print '%s\t%s\t[%s]' % (fmt, b, ext.split('.')[-1])
+					print('%s\t%s\t[%s]' % (fmt, b, ext.split('.')[-1]))
 				except TypeError: # we have no bitrate info
 					ext = formats[fmt][0]
-					print '%s\t%s\t[%s]' % (fmt, '??', ext.split('.')[-1])
+					print('%s\t%s\t[%s]' % (fmt, '??', ext.split('.')[-1]))
 					break
 
 	def _real_extract(self, url):
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index ee6de6237..bf4b55f48 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 def updateSelf(downloader, filename):
 	''' Update the program file with the latest version from the repository '''
 	# Note: downloader only used for options
-	
+
 	if not os.access(filename, os.W_OK):
 		sys.exit('ERROR: no write permissions on %s' % filename)
 
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ def updateSelf(downloader, filename):
 		directory = os.path.dirname(exe)
 		if not os.access(directory, os.W_OK):
 			sys.exit('ERROR: no write permissions on %s' % directory)
-			
+
 		try:
 			urlh = urllib2.urlopen(UPDATE_URL_EXE)
 			newcontent = urlh.read()
@@ -75,20 +75,18 @@ def updateSelf(downloader, filename):
 				outf.write(newcontent)
 		except (IOError, OSError), err:
 			sys.exit('ERROR: unable to download latest version')
-			
+
 		try:
 			bat = os.path.join(directory, 'youtube-dl-updater.bat')
 			b = open(bat, 'w')
-			
-			print >> b, """
+			b.write("""
 echo Updating youtube-dl...
 ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 -w 1000 > NUL
 move /Y "%s.new" "%s"
 del "%s"
-			""" %(exe, exe, bat)
-			
+			\n""" %(exe, exe, bat))
 			b.close()
-			
+
 			os.startfile(bat)
 		except (IOError, OSError), err:
 			sys.exit('ERROR: unable to overwrite current version')
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 56d046145..6f53337d4 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ def __init__(self, id):
 		HTMLParser.HTMLParser.__init__(self)
 
 	def error(self, message):
-		#print >> sys.stderr, self.getpos()
 		if self.error_count > 10 or self.started:
 			raise HTMLParser.HTMLParseError(message, self.getpos())
 		self.rawdata = '\n'.join(self.html.split('\n')[self.getpos()[0]:]) # skip one line