Merge pull request splunk#193 from ruxandraburtica/develop

shakeelmohamed · web-flow · commit 4791e944b021 · 2018-03-01T10:36:56.000-08:00
Using basestring instead of str so that unicode values are also accepted.
diff --git a/splunklib/data.py b/splunklib/data.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ def load_elem(element, nametable=None):
     if attrs is None: return name, value
     if value is None: return name, attrs
     # If value is simple, merge into attrs dict using special key
-    if isinstance(value, str):
+    if isinstance(value, six.string_types):
         attrs["$text"] = value
         return name, attrs
     # Both attrs & value are complex, so merge the two dicts, resolving collisions.
