From b18a2a7aa334a99ae51d5557b5eaf83315dad42e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mdipierro <massimo.dipierro@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:02:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fixed issue 1117, snitize of unicode, thanks Bill

---
 VERSION            | 2 +-
 gluon/sanitizer.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 81aab881..4ae212d9 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 2.2.1 (2012-10-31 09:52:38) stable
+Version 2.2.1 (2012-10-31 10:02:04) stable
diff --git a/gluon/sanitizer.py b/gluon/sanitizer.py
index e9ded858..37433361 100644
--- a/gluon/sanitizer.py
+++ b/gluon/sanitizer.py
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ def sanitize(text, permitted_tags=[
         'td': ['colspan'],
     },
         escape=True):
-    if not isinstance(text, str):
+    if not isinstance(text, basestring):
         return str(text)
     return XssCleaner(permitted_tags=permitted_tags,
                       allowed_attributes=allowed_attributes).strip(text, escape)