From 04971674b4e5b0a64e40d37122e452501deae1cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ishaan-jaff <ishaanjaffer0324@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:23:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] (fix) only decode chunk when it's not a str

---
 litellm/utils.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/litellm/utils.py b/litellm/utils.py
index 2a01eadbf77..05e84329e6b 100644
--- a/litellm/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/utils.py
@@ -4367,7 +4367,8 @@ class CustomStreamWrapper:
 
     def handle_huggingface_chunk(self, chunk):
         try:
-            chunk = chunk.decode("utf-8") # DO NOT REMOVE this: This is required for HF inference API + Streaming
+            if type(chunk) != str:
+                chunk = chunk.decode("utf-8") # DO NOT REMOVE this: This is required for HF inference API + Streaming
             text = "" 
             is_finished = False
             finish_reason = ""