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
29617	django.template.Template crashes if the template_string argument is lazy	Dražen Odobašić	Dražen Odobašić	"* in Django 1.11 we were using `force_text` when initializing templates and that evaluated any lazy objects - https://github.com/django/django/commit/3a148f958dddd97c1379081118c30fbede6b6bc4#diff-8cbe1fb6d589cb6e35b956704d7a1285L154
  * in this context lazy objects are usually `gettext` wrapped strings 

* in Django 2.0/master we removed `force_text` so lazy strings are no longer evaluated, and that raises a `TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object` - https://github.com/django/django/blob/2.0.7/django/template/base.py#L349

* proposed solution: use `str` to force evaluation of lazy objects"	Bug	closed	Template system	2.0	Release blocker	fixed			Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0