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-rw-r--r--searx/query.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/searx/query.py b/searx/query.py
index 7acdd543d..e4483f188 100644
--- a/searx/query.py
+++ b/searx/query.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class RawTextQuery(object):
self.query_parts = []
# split query, including whitespaces
- raw_query_parts = re.split(r'(\s+)', self.query)
+ raw_query_parts = re.split(r'(\s+)' if isinstance(self.query, str) else b'(\s+)', self.query)
parse_next = True