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
18980	master .assertContains after d1452f60 should still coerce objects to text.	Jeremy Dunck	nobody	"In [1], smart_str(text) was removed, but probably shouldn't have been.

Let's put back the py3 analog, force_text.

[1] https://github.com/django/django/commit/d1452f60974da6f0e54ff9ad7a03d2c115675d10
"	Bug	closed	Testing framework	1.4	Normal	fixed			Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0