From 40c552c11e25dc440781717260c053221f60920b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Venca24 <Vaclav.Zouzalik@seznam.cz>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:21:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [fix] hash plugin

---
 searx/plugins/hash_plugin.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/searx/plugins/hash_plugin.py b/searx/plugins/hash_plugin.py
index 3612bab6b..7754763ca 100644
--- a/searx/plugins/hash_plugin.py
+++ b/searx/plugins/hash_plugin.py
@@ -36,9 +36,10 @@ def post_search(request, search):
         # wrong query
         return True
 
-    # end if the string is empty
     function, string = m.groups()
+    function = str(function.decode('UTF-8'))  # convert to string for python3
     if string.strip().__len__() == 0:
+        # end if the string is empty
         return True
 
     # select hash function