From d7e94473f3c350a1c3ec49e79f3a7e6c711b8842 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eli Uriegas <seemethere101@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 18:37:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Use a try/except, it's a bit faster

Also reorder some imports and add some comments
---
 sanic/response.py | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sanic/response.py b/sanic/response.py
index c09c8dbd..2c4c7f27 100644
--- a/sanic/response.py
+++ b/sanic/response.py
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 from aiofiles import open as open_async
-from .cookies import CookieJar
 from mimetypes import guess_type
 from os import path
+
 from ujson import dumps as json_dumps
 
+from .cookies import CookieJar
+
 COMMON_STATUS_CODES = {
     200: b'OK',
     400: b'Bad Request',
@@ -79,9 +81,12 @@ class HTTPResponse:
         self.content_type = content_type
 
         if body is not None:
-            self.body = body
-            if isinstance(body,  str):
+            try:
+                # Try to encode it regularly
                 self.body = body.encode('utf-8')
+            except AttributeError:
+                # Convert it to a str if you can't
+                self.body = str(body).encode('utf-8')
         else:
             self.body = body_bytes