Change-Id: Icef5f8a769b5c33da68b7da33ac8ba87132830e2
Signed-off-by: Linda Wang <wangwulin@huawei.com>
 scp
 cryptography>=2.1 # BSD/Apache-2.0
 concurrencytest
+six>=1.10.0 # MIT
 
 # limitations under the License.
 import logging
 
+import six
+
 from neutronclient.common.exceptions import NotFound, Unauthorized
 
 from snaps.config.router import RouterConfig
         :param sub_config:
         :return:
         """
-        if isinstance(sub_config, str):
+        if isinstance(sub_config, six.text_type):
             return neutron_utils.get_subnet_by_name(
                 self._neutron, self._keystone,
                 subnet_name=sub_config)