def convert_body_to_bytes(resp):
    """
    If the request body is a string, encode it to bytes (for python3 support)

    By default yaml serializes to utf-8 encoded bytestrings.
    When this cassette is loaded by python3, it's automatically decoded
    into unicode strings.  This makes sure that it stays a bytestring, since
    that's what all the internal httplib machinery is expecting.

    For more info on py3 yaml:
    http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAMLDocumentation#Python3support
    """
    try:
        if not isinstance(resp['body']['string'], six.binary_type):
            resp['body']['string'] = resp['body']['string'].encode('utf-8')
    except (__HOLE__, TypeError, UnicodeEncodeError):
        # The thing we were converting either wasn't a dictionary or didn't
        # have the keys we were expecting.  Some of the tests just serialize
        # and deserialize a string.

        # Also, sometimes the thing actually is binary, so if you can't encode
        # it, just give up.
        pass
    return resp
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