From 28a58aa5d7dfb220112187c4919999a98fed10a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabio Caccamo <fabio.caccamo@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:54:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Removed unnecessary type check.

---
 benedict/serializers/base64.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/benedict/serializers/base64.py b/benedict/serializers/base64.py
index e048ac7..1be1d34 100644
--- a/benedict/serializers/base64.py
+++ b/benedict/serializers/base64.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class Base64CoreSerializer(AbstractSerializer):
         if encoding:
             value = value.encode(encoding)
         value = base64.b64decode(value)
-        if encoding and type_util.is_string(value):
+        if encoding:
             return value.decode(encoding)
         return value