From a7ab7fc0568143118acfccde4f40469db62fd4cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?L=C3=A9o=20Cavaill=C3=A9?= <leo@datadoghq.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 02:36:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Use unicode() instead of decode() for perfs

---
 aggregator.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/aggregator.py b/aggregator.py
index a0017e272a..cf628d3517 100644
--- 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():