From ce54ef08933f2a5f1d65b6ed3b955763cadbf94a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Hamlett <alan.hamlett@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:13:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] always turn strings into unicode in logger encoder

---
 wakatime/logger.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wakatime/logger.py b/wakatime/logger.py
index 525945c..a301712 100644
--- a/wakatime/logger.py
+++ b/wakatime/logger.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import logging
 import os
 import traceback
 
-from .compat import u
+from .compat import basestring, u
 from .packages.requests.packages import urllib3
 try:
     from collections import OrderedDict  # pragma: nocover
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ except (ImportError, SyntaxError):  # pragma: nocover
 class CustomEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
 
     def default(self, obj):
-        if isinstance(obj, bytes):  # pragma: nocover
+        if isinstance(obj, basestring):
             obj = u(obj)
             return json.dumps(obj)
         try:  # pragma: nocover