From 268e3cba424391dd32950d0ba08d28a65c4ef14b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miguel Grinberg <miguel.grinberg@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:18:53 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] additional fix regarding bytearray support

---
 engineio/packet.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/engineio/packet.py b/engineio/packet.py
index 79267044..45349e19 100644
--- a/engineio/packet.py
+++ b/engineio/packet.py
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ def decode(self, encoded_packet):
         b64 = False
         if not isinstance(encoded_packet, binary_types):
             encoded_packet = encoded_packet.encode('utf-8')
+        elif not isinstance(encoded_packet, bytes):
+            encoded_packet = bytes(encoded_packet)
         self.packet_type = six.byte2int(encoded_packet[0:1])
         if self.packet_type == 98:  # 'b' --> binary base64 encoded packet
             self.binary = True