Use unicode() instead of decode() for perfs

DataDog · Jan 15, 2015 · a7ab7fc · a7ab7fc
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commit a7ab7fc
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diff --git a/aggregator.py b/aggregator.py
@@ -503,8 +503,8 @@ def submit_packets(self, packets):
         # network socket, but if submit_packets is used
         # programatically and packets is unicode already
         # then do not decode!
-        if not isinstance(packets, unicode):
-            packets = packets.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+        if not type(packets) == unicode:
+            packets = unicode(packets, 'utf-8')
 
         for packet in packets.splitlines():