Python 3: Convert some unicode/bytes uses (#3569)

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/state.py b/synapse/state.py

index 033f55d967..e1092b97a9 100644
--- a/synapse/state.py
+++ b/synapse/state.py
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ def _make_state_cache_entry(
 
 def _ordered_events(events):
     def key_func(e):
-        return -int(e.depth), hashlib.sha1(e.event_id.encode()).hexdigest()
+        return -int(e.depth), hashlib.sha1(e.event_id.encode('ascii')).hexdigest()
 
     return sorted(events, key=key_func)