'String' object has no attribute 'splitlines'

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I'm trying to parse the output of ros_caffe and republish this in a format ready for speaking. Simon Birrell's node filter_caffe does this but I'm getting the error in the headline. https://github.com/SimonBirrell/filte...

import sys
print
print sys.path
print

import rospy
from filter_caffe import filter_caffe_message
from std_msgs.msg import String

Pub = 0

def received_caffe_message(data):
    global Pub
    filtered_message = filter_caffe_message(data)
    if filtered_message:
        Pub.publish(filtered_message)
        rospy.loginfo(filtered_message)
    else:
       rospy.loginfo("No good hit.")

I think it's related to this portion of the code:

    def filter_caffe_message(caffe_message):
    lines = caffe_message.splitlines()
    if (len(lines) == 0):
        return None
    first_line = lines[0]
    tokens = first_line.split(" ")
    if (len(tokens)<2):
        return None
    raw_probability = tokens[1].split("[")   
    if (len(raw_probability)<2):
        return None
    probability = float(raw_probability[1])
    if (probability>PROBABILITY_THRESHOLD):
        object_list = first_line.split(" - ")[1][10:]
        first_object = object_list.split(",")[0]
        return first_object
    return None

This is the exact error I'm getting:

    [ERROR] [WallTime: 1491028835.534480] bad callback: <function received_caffe_message at 0xb672e6b0>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/ros/indigo/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rospy/topics.py", line 720, in _invoke_callback
    cb(msg)
  File "/home/ubuntu/catkin_ws/src/filter_caffe/nodes/filter_caffe2.py", line 24, in received_caffe_message
    filtered_message = filter_caffe_message(data)
  File "<string>", line 28, in filter_caffe_message
AttributeError: 'String' object has no attribute 'splitlines'

I understand that splitlines() only works with string objects but I thought that caffe_message was a string?

Thanks!

Will