From 02cb5602b4373241fe6a5f557a1afddaf9aa88d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zeph <zeph33@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 22:04:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [fix] autocompleter py3 compatibility - fixes #1088

---
 searx/query.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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