diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/yaml_provider.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/yaml_provider.py
index a0763895355..8dfa314aeb6 100755
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/yaml_provider.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/yaml_provider.py
@@ -907,7 +907,7 @@ def log_for_testing(
 
     def to_loggable_json_recursive(o):
       if isinstance(o, (str, bytes)):
-        return o
+        return str(o)
       elif callable(getattr(o, '_asdict', None)):
         return to_loggable_json_recursive(o._asdict())
       elif isinstance(o, Mapping) and callable(getattr(o, 'items', None)):