From cc982c5a61ef9523e3565b9d3d014f404d4141ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cr0hn <cr0hn@cr0hn.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 15:24:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update response.py

Type check by isinstance
---
 sanic/response.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sanic/response.py b/sanic/response.py
index 1f86a807..c09c8dbd 100644
--- a/sanic/response.py
+++ b/sanic/response.py
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ class HTTPResponse:
 
         if body is not None:
             self.body = body
-            if type(body) is str:
+            if isinstance(body,  str):
                 self.body = body.encode('utf-8')
         else:
             self.body = body_bytes