Fixed issue where strain values in bytes needed to be decoded when loading a Temp trait

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/wqflask/wqflask/show_trait/SampleList.py b/wqflask/wqflask/show_trait/SampleList.py
index 37c1d6d5..99ca7f88 100644
--- a/wqflask/wqflask/show_trait/SampleList.py
+++ b/wqflask/wqflask/show_trait/SampleList.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class SampleList(object):
             # ZS: self.this_trait will be a list if it is a Temp trait
             if isinstance(self.this_trait, list):
                 if (counter <= len(self.this_trait) and
-                        str(self.this_trait[counter-1]).upper() != 'X'):
+                        self.this_trait[counter-1].decode("utf-8").lower() != 'x'):
                     sample = webqtlCaseData.webqtlCaseData(
                         name=sample_name,
                         value=float(self.this_trait[counter-1]))