From 01194137ab7d18d8f1d96100869293d5ba07834b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andre Sailer <andre.philippe.sailer@cern.ch>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 05:34:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(TCA): add encoding before hashing

---
 .../TransformationSystem/Agent/TransformationCleaningAgent.py   | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/DIRAC/TransformationSystem/Agent/TransformationCleaningAgent.py b/src/DIRAC/TransformationSystem/Agent/TransformationCleaningAgent.py
index 0c9fce5883f..e328e165411 100644
--- a/src/DIRAC/TransformationSystem/Agent/TransformationCleaningAgent.py
+++ b/src/DIRAC/TransformationSystem/Agent/TransformationCleaningAgent.py
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ def __submitRemovalRequests(self, lfns, transID=0):
         """
         for index, lfnList in enumerate(breakListIntoChunks(lfns, 300)):
             oRequest = Request()
-            requestName = "TCA_{transID}_{index}_{md5(repr(time.time())).hexdigest()[:5]}"
+            requestName = "TCA_{transID}_{index}_{md5(repr(time.time()).encode()).hexdigest()[:5]}"
             oRequest.RequestName = requestName
             oOperation = Operation()
             oOperation.Type = "RemoveFile"