From 0e038cbb181f4901afd99576dba29a3c42713610 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: evilchili <evilchili@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:24:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Do not cast bytes to strs

---
 src/grung/types.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/grung/types.py b/src/grung/types.py
index 09da45a..2006b77 100644
--- a/src/grung/types.py
+++ b/src/grung/types.py
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ class TextFilePointer(BinaryFilePointer):
     extension: str = ".txt"
 
     def prepare(self, data: value_type):
-        if data:
+        if data and not isinstance(data, bytes):
             return str(data).encode()
 
     def deserialize(self, value: str, db: TinyDB, recurse: bool = True) -> value_type: