[mod] webutils.py: remove dead code

secret_key can't be bytes (see settings_default.py)

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/searx/webutils.py b/searx/webutils.py
index 737e5a82f..11a101806 100644
--- a/searx/webutils.py
+++ b/searx/webutils.py
@@ -77,14 +77,7 @@ def get_result_templates(templates_path):
 
 
 def new_hmac(secret_key, url):
-    try:
-        secret_key_bytes = bytes(secret_key, 'utf-8')
-    except TypeError as err:
-        if isinstance(secret_key, bytes):
-            secret_key_bytes = secret_key
-        else:
-            raise err
-    return hmac.new(secret_key_bytes, url, hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
+    return hmac.new(secret_key.encode(), url, hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
 
 
 def prettify_url(url, max_length=74):