id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 18772 force_unicode needs to go through deprecation policy Adrian Holovaty nobody "Looks like {{{django.utils.text.force_unicode}}} was removed recently, without providing a backwards-compatible shim. The method had been documented (and I use it at work) -- so imagine my surprise when updating my Django trunk code resulted in a hard breaking of my site. Apparently {{{django.utils.encoding.force_text}}} is the new thing going forward. I haven't been paying attention to the developments here, so I'm not comfortable writing a patch for something so fundamental to the framework... :-/" Bug closed Python 3 dev Release blocker fixed Accepted 0 0 0 0 0 0