Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/fields.py b/rest_framework/fields.py
index fc14184c..b5f99823 100644
--- a/rest_framework/fields.py
+++ b/rest_framework/fields.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from rest_framework import ISO_8601
 from rest_framework.compat import timezone, parse_date, parse_datetime, parse_time
 from rest_framework.compat import BytesIO
 from rest_framework.compat import six
-from rest_framework.compat import smart_text
+from rest_framework.compat import smart_text, force_text, is_non_str_iterable
 from rest_framework.settings import api_settings
 
 
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ def is_simple_callable(obj):
     len_defaults = len(defaults) if defaults else 0
     return len_args <= len_defaults
 
-
 def get_component(obj, attr_name):
     """
     Given an object, and an attribute name,
@@ -169,7 +168,8 @@ class Field(object):
 
         if is_protected_type(value):
             return value
-        elif hasattr(value, '__iter__') and not isinstance(value, (dict, six.string_types)):
+        elif (is_non_str_iterable(value) and
+              not isinstance(value, (dict, six.string_types))):
             return [self.to_native(item) for item in value]
         elif isinstance(value, dict):
             # Make sure we preserve field ordering, if it exists
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ class Field(object):
             for key, val in value.items():
                 ret[key] = self.to_native(val)
             return ret
-        return smart_text(value)
+        return force_text(value)
 
     def attributes(self):
         """