Refs #27753 -- Deprecated django.utils.encoding.force_text() and smart_text().

django/utils/encoding.py

 import codecs
 import datetime
 import locale
+import warnings
 from decimal import Decimal
 from urllib.parse import quote
 
+from django.utils.deprecation import RemovedInDjango40Warning
 from django.utils.functional import Promise
 
 
@@ -97,8 +99,20 @@ def force_bytes(s, encoding='utf-8', strings_only=False, errors='strict'):
     return str(s).encode(encoding, errors)
 
 
-smart_text = smart_str
-force_text = force_str
+def smart_text(s, encoding='utf-8', strings_only=False, errors='strict'):
+    warnings.warn(
+        'smart_text() is deprecated in favor of smart_str().',
+        RemovedInDjango40Warning, stacklevel=2,
+    )
+    return smart_str(s, encoding, strings_only, errors)
+
+
+def force_text(s, encoding='utf-8', strings_only=False, errors='strict'):
+    warnings.warn(
+        'force_text() is deprecated in favor of force_str().',
+        RemovedInDjango40Warning, stacklevel=2,
+    )
+    return force_str(s, encoding, strings_only, errors)
 
 
 def iri_to_uri(iri):

docs/internals/deprecation.txt

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ details on these changes.
 * ``django.utils.http.urlquote()``, ``urlquote_plus()``, ``urlunquote()``, and
   ``urlunquote_plus()`` will be removed.
 
+* ``django.utils.encoding.force_text()`` and ``smart_text()`` will be removed.
+
 .. _deprecation-removed-in-3.1:
 
 3.1

docs/ref/utils.txt

@@ -232,11 +232,15 @@ The functions defined in this module share the following properties:
 
 .. function:: smart_text(s, encoding='utf-8', strings_only=False, errors='strict')
 
+    .. deprecated:: 3.0
+
     Alias of :func:`force_str` for backwards compatibility, especially in code
     that supports Python 2.
 
 .. function:: force_text(s, encoding='utf-8', strings_only=False, errors='strict')
 
+    .. deprecated:: 3.0
+
     Alias of :func:`force_str` for backwards compatibility, especially in code
     that supports Python 2.
 

docs/releases/3.0.txt

@@ -292,6 +292,14 @@ Miscellaneous
 Features deprecated in 3.0
 ==========================
 
+``django.utils.encoding.force_text()`` and ``smart_text()``
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+The ``smart_text()`` and ``force_text()`` aliases (since Django 2.0) of
+``smart_str()`` and ``force_str()`` are deprecated. Ignore this deprecation if
+your code supports Python 2 as the behavior of ``smart_str()`` and
+``force_str()`` is different there.
+
 Miscellaneous
 -------------
 

tests/utils_tests/test_encoding_deprecations.py

+from django.test import SimpleTestCase, ignore_warnings
+from django.utils.deprecation import RemovedInDjango40Warning
+from django.utils.encoding import force_text, smart_text
+from django.utils.functional import SimpleLazyObject
+from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy
+
+
+@ignore_warnings(category=RemovedInDjango40Warning)
+class TestDeprecatedEncodingUtils(SimpleTestCase):
+
+    def test_force_text(self):
+        s = SimpleLazyObject(lambda: 'x')
+        self.assertIs(type(force_text(s)), str)
+
+    def test_smart_text(self):
+        class Test:
+            def __str__(self):
+                return 'ŠĐĆŽćžšđ'
+
+        lazy_func = gettext_lazy('x')
+        self.assertIs(smart_text(lazy_func), lazy_func)
+        self.assertEqual(smart_text(Test()), '\u0160\u0110\u0106\u017d\u0107\u017e\u0161\u0111')
+        self.assertEqual(smart_text(1), '1')
+        self.assertEqual(smart_text('foo'), 'foo')