Removed encoding, since it's apparently not needed since the Python 3 switchover (and was causing there to be no matches between user IDs and groups)

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/wqflask/utility/redis_tools.py b/wqflask/utility/redis_tools.py
index ff125bd2..99295c67 100644
--- a/wqflask/utility/redis_tools.py
+++ b/wqflask/utility/redis_tools.py
@@ -135,10 +135,8 @@ def get_user_groups(user_id):
     for key in groups_list:
         try:
             group_ob = json.loads(groups_list[key])
-            group_admins = set([this_admin.encode(
-                'utf-8') if this_admin else None for this_admin in group_ob['admins']])
-            group_members = set([this_member.encode(
-                'utf-8') if this_member else None for this_member in group_ob['members']])
+            group_admins = set([this_admin if this_admin else None for this_admin in group_ob['admins']])
+            group_members = set([this_member if this_member else None for this_member in group_ob['members']])
             if user_id in group_admins:
                 admin_group_ids.append(group_ob['id'])
             elif user_id in group_members: