From 604d0bb6663953959aafac023720b0468a20b034 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sylvain Corlay <scorlay@bloomberg.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:42:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] A String is an object

---
 IPython/html/static/widgets/js/widget.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/IPython/html/static/widgets/js/widget.js b/IPython/html/static/widgets/js/widget.js
index a3df7e0eb..ea5c062c5 100644
--- a/IPython/html/static/widgets/js/widget.js
+++ b/IPython/html/static/widgets/js/widget.js
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ define(["widgets/js/manager",
                     packed.push(that._pack_models(sub_value));
                 });
                 return packed;
-            } else if (value instanceof Date) {
+            } else if (value instanceof Date || value instanceof String) {
                 return value;
             } else if (value instanceof Object) {
                 packed = {};