Refs #23919 -- Removed default 'utf-8' argument for str.encode()/decode().

django/contrib/auth/password_validation.py

@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ class CommonPasswordValidator:
     def __init__(self, password_list_path=DEFAULT_PASSWORD_LIST_PATH):
         try:
             with gzip.open(password_list_path) as f:
-                common_passwords_lines = f.read().decode('utf-8').splitlines()
+                common_passwords_lines = f.read().decode().splitlines()
         except IOError:
             with open(password_list_path) as f:
                 common_passwords_lines = f.readlines()

django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py

@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ class ManifestFilesMixin(HashedFilesMixin):
     def read_manifest(self):
         try:
             with self.open(self.manifest_name) as manifest:
-                return manifest.read().decode('utf-8')
+                return manifest.read().decode()
         except IOError:
             return None
 
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ class ManifestFilesMixin(HashedFilesMixin):
         payload = {'paths': self.hashed_files, 'version': self.manifest_version}
         if self.exists(self.manifest_name):
             self.delete(self.manifest_name)
-        contents = json.dumps(payload).encode('utf-8')
+        contents = json.dumps(payload).encode()
         self._save(self.manifest_name, ContentFile(contents))
 
     def stored_name(self, name):

django/core/handlers/wsgi.py

@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ from django.urls import set_script_prefix
 from django.utils.encoding import force_text, repercent_broken_unicode
 from django.utils.functional import cached_property
 
-ISO_8859_1, UTF_8 = 'iso-8859-1', 'utf-8'
-
 _slashes_re = re.compile(br'/+')
 
 
@@ -168,7 +166,7 @@ def get_path_info(environ):
     """
     path_info = get_bytes_from_wsgi(environ, 'PATH_INFO', '/')
 
-    return repercent_broken_unicode(path_info).decode(UTF_8)
+    return repercent_broken_unicode(path_info).decode()
 
 
 def get_script_name(environ):
@@ -201,7 +199,7 @@ def get_script_name(environ):
     else:
         script_name = get_bytes_from_wsgi(environ, 'SCRIPT_NAME', '')
 
-    return script_name.decode(UTF_8)
+    return script_name.decode()
 
 
 def get_bytes_from_wsgi(environ, key, default):
@@ -214,7 +212,7 @@ def get_bytes_from_wsgi(environ, key, default):
     # Non-ASCII values in the WSGI environ are arbitrarily decoded with
     # ISO-8859-1. This is wrong for Django websites where UTF-8 is the default.
     # Re-encode to recover the original bytestring.
-    return value.encode(ISO_8859_1)
+    return value.encode('iso-8859-1')
 
 
 def get_str_from_wsgi(environ, key, default):
@@ -224,4 +222,4 @@ def get_str_from_wsgi(environ, key, default):
     key and default should be str objects.
     """
     value = get_bytes_from_wsgi(environ, key, default)
-    return value.decode(UTF_8, errors='replace')
+    return value.decode(errors='replace')

django/core/mail/message.py

@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ class SafeMIMEText(MIMEMixin, MIMEText):
     def set_payload(self, payload, charset=None):
         if charset == 'utf-8':
             has_long_lines = any(
-                len(l.encode('utf-8')) > RFC5322_EMAIL_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT
+                len(l.encode()) > RFC5322_EMAIL_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT
                 for l in payload.splitlines()
             )
             # Quoted-Printable encoding has the side effect of shortening long
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ class EmailMessage:
             if basetype == 'text':
                 if isinstance(content, bytes):
                     try:
-                        content = content.decode('utf-8')
+                        content = content.decode()
                     except UnicodeDecodeError:
                         # If mimetype suggests the file is text but it's
                         # actually binary, read() raises a UnicodeDecodeError.

django/core/serializers/json.py

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def Deserializer(stream_or_string, **options):
     if not isinstance(stream_or_string, (bytes, str)):
         stream_or_string = stream_or_string.read()
     if isinstance(stream_or_string, bytes):
-        stream_or_string = stream_or_string.decode('utf-8')
+        stream_or_string = stream_or_string.decode()
     try:
         objects = json.loads(stream_or_string)
         for obj in PythonDeserializer(objects, **options):

django/core/serializers/pyyaml.py

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def Deserializer(stream_or_string, **options):
     Deserialize a stream or string of YAML data.
     """
     if isinstance(stream_or_string, bytes):
-        stream_or_string = stream_or_string.decode('utf-8')
+        stream_or_string = stream_or_string.decode()
     if isinstance(stream_or_string, str):
         stream = StringIO(stream_or_string)
     else:

django/db/backends/postgresql/operations.py

@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ class DatabaseOperations(BaseDatabaseOperations):
         # http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/cursor.html#cursor.query
         # The query attribute is a Psycopg extension to the DB API 2.0.
         if cursor.query is not None:
-            return cursor.query.decode('utf-8')
+            return cursor.query.decode()
         return None
 
     def return_insert_id(self):

django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def decoder(conv_func):
         This function converts the received value to a regular string before
         passing it to the receiver function.
     """
-    return lambda s: conv_func(s.decode('utf-8'))
+    return lambda s: conv_func(s.decode())
 
 
 Database.register_converter("bool", decoder(lambda s: s == '1'))

django/test/client.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse, urlsplit
 
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.handlers.base import BaseHandler
-from django.core.handlers.wsgi import ISO_8859_1, UTF_8, WSGIRequest
+from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIRequest
 from django.core.signals import (
     got_request_exception, request_finished, request_started,
 )
@@ -320,11 +320,11 @@ class RequestFactory:
         # If there are parameters, add them
         if parsed.params:
             path += ";" + parsed.params
-        path = uri_to_iri(path).encode(UTF_8)
+        path = uri_to_iri(path).encode()
         # Replace the behavior where non-ASCII values in the WSGI environ are
         # arbitrarily decoded with ISO-8859-1.
         # Refs comment in `get_bytes_from_wsgi()`.
-        return path.decode(ISO_8859_1)
+        return path.decode('iso-8859-1')
 
     def get(self, path, data=None, secure=False, **extra):
         "Construct a GET request."

django/utils/crypto.py

@@ -63,11 +63,9 @@ def get_random_string(length=12,
         # is better than absolute predictability.
         random.seed(
             hashlib.sha256(
-                ("%s%s%s" % (
-                    random.getstate(),
-                    time.time(),
-                    settings.SECRET_KEY)).encode('utf-8')
-            ).digest())
+                ('%s%s%s' % (random.getstate(), time.time(), settings.SECRET_KEY)).encode()
+            ).digest()
+        )
     return ''.join(random.choice(allowed_chars) for i in range(length))
 
 

django/utils/encoding.py

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ def uri_to_iri(uri):
         return uri
     uri = force_bytes(uri)
     iri = unquote_to_bytes(uri)
-    return repercent_broken_unicode(iri).decode('utf-8')
+    return repercent_broken_unicode(iri).decode()
 
 
 def escape_uri_path(path):
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ def repercent_broken_unicode(path):
     strictly legal UTF-8 octet sequence.
     """
     try:
-        path.decode('utf-8')
+        path.decode()
     except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
         repercent = quote(path[e.start:e.end], safe=b"/#%[]=:;$&()+,!?*@'~")
         path = repercent_broken_unicode(

django/utils/functional.py

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def lazy(func, *resultclasses):
             return bytes(func(*self.__args, **self.__kw))
 
         def __bytes_cast_encoded(self):
-            return func(*self.__args, **self.__kw).encode('utf-8')
+            return func(*self.__args, **self.__kw).encode()
 
         def __cast(self):
             if self._delegate_bytes:

tests/cache/tests.py

@@ -886,13 +886,13 @@ class BaseCacheTests:
 
         get_cache_data = fetch_middleware.process_request(request)
         self.assertIsNotNone(get_cache_data)
-        self.assertEqual(get_cache_data.content, content.encode('utf-8'))
+        self.assertEqual(get_cache_data.content, content.encode())
         self.assertEqual(get_cache_data.cookies, response.cookies)
 
         update_middleware.process_response(request, get_cache_data)
         get_cache_data = fetch_middleware.process_request(request)
         self.assertIsNotNone(get_cache_data)
-        self.assertEqual(get_cache_data.content, content.encode('utf-8'))
+        self.assertEqual(get_cache_data.content, content.encode())
         self.assertEqual(get_cache_data.cookies, response.cookies)
 
     def test_add_fail_on_pickleerror(self):

tests/file_uploads/views.py

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ def file_upload_echo_content(request):
     """
     def read_and_close(f):
         with f:
-            return f.read().decode('utf-8')
+            return f.read().decode()
     r = {k: read_and_close(f) for k, f in request.FILES.items()}
     return JsonResponse(r)
 

tests/files/tests.py

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ class FileTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_io_wrapper(self):
         content = "vive l'été\n"
         with tempfile.TemporaryFile() as temp, File(temp, name='something.txt') as test_file:
-            test_file.write(content.encode('utf-8'))
+            test_file.write(content.encode())
             test_file.seek(0)
             wrapper = TextIOWrapper(test_file, 'utf-8', newline='\n')
             self.assertEqual(wrapper.read(), content)
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class FileTests(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(wrapper.read(), content * 2)
             test_file = wrapper.detach()
             test_file.seek(0)
-            self.assertEqual(test_file.read(), (content * 2).encode('utf-8'))
+            self.assertEqual(test_file.read(), (content * 2).encode())
 
 
 class NoNameFileTestCase(unittest.TestCase):

tests/forms_tests/field_tests/test_filefield.py

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class FileFieldTest(SimpleTestCase):
             f.clean(SimpleUploadedFile('name', b''))
         self.assertEqual(SimpleUploadedFile, type(f.clean(SimpleUploadedFile('name', b'Some File Content'))))
         self.assertIsInstance(
-            f.clean(SimpleUploadedFile('我隻氣墊船裝滿晒鱔.txt', 'मेरी मँडराने वाली नाव सर्पमीनों से भरी ह'.encode('utf-8'))),
+            f.clean(SimpleUploadedFile('我隻氣墊船裝滿晒鱔.txt', 'मेरी मँडराने वाली नाव सर्पमीनों से भरी ह'.encode())),
             SimpleUploadedFile
         )
         self.assertIsInstance(

tests/forms_tests/tests/test_forms.py

@@ -2421,7 +2421,7 @@ Password: <input type="password" name="password" required />
         )
         self.assertTrue(f.is_valid())
 
-        file1 = SimpleUploadedFile('我隻氣墊船裝滿晒鱔.txt', 'मेरी मँडराने वाली नाव सर्पमीनों से भरी ह'.encode('utf-8'))
+        file1 = SimpleUploadedFile('我隻氣墊船裝滿晒鱔.txt', 'मेरी मँडराने वाली नाव सर्पमीनों से भरी ह'.encode())
         f = FileForm(data={}, files={'file1': file1}, auto_id=False)
         self.assertHTMLEqual(
             f.as_table(),

tests/forms_tests/tests/tests.py

@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ class ModelFormCallableModelDefault(TestCase):
 class FormsModelTestCase(TestCase):
     def test_unicode_filename(self):
         # FileModel with unicode filename and data #########################
-        file1 = SimpleUploadedFile('我隻氣墊船裝滿晒鱔.txt', 'मेरी मँडराने वाली नाव सर्पमीनों से भरी ह'.encode('utf-8'))
+        file1 = SimpleUploadedFile('我隻氣墊船裝滿晒鱔.txt', 'मेरी मँडराने वाली नाव सर्पमीनों से भरी ह'.encode())
         f = FileForm(data={}, files={'file1': file1}, auto_id=False)
         self.assertTrue(f.is_valid())
         self.assertIn('file1', f.cleaned_data)

tests/httpwrappers/tests.py

@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ class HttpResponseTests(unittest.TestCase):
         with self.assertRaises(UnicodeError):
             r.__setitem__('føø', 'bar')
         with self.assertRaises(UnicodeError):
-            r.__setitem__('føø'.encode('utf-8'), 'bar')
+            r.__setitem__('føø'.encode(), 'bar')
 
     def test_long_line(self):
         # Bug #20889: long lines trigger newlines to be added to headers
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ class HttpResponseTests(unittest.TestCase):
         # test odd inputs
         r = HttpResponse()
         r.content = ['1', '2', 3, '\u079e']
-        # '\xde\x9e' == unichr(1950).encode('utf-8')
+        # '\xde\x9e' == unichr(1950).encode()
         self.assertEqual(r.content, b'123\xde\x9e')
 
         # .content can safely be accessed multiple times.
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ class StreamingHttpResponseTests(SimpleTestCase):
         # iterating over strings still yields bytestring chunks.
         r.streaming_content = iter(['hello', 'café'])
         chunks = list(r)
-        # '\xc3\xa9' == unichr(233).encode('utf-8')
+        # '\xc3\xa9' == unichr(233).encode()
         self.assertEqual(chunks, [b'hello', b'caf\xc3\xa9'])
         for chunk in chunks:
             self.assertIsInstance(chunk, bytes)

tests/logging_tests/tests.py

@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ args=(sys.stdout,)
 format=%(message)s
 """
         self.temp_file = NamedTemporaryFile()
-        self.temp_file.write(logging_conf.encode('utf-8'))
+        self.temp_file.write(logging_conf.encode())
         self.temp_file.flush()
         sdict = {'LOGGING_CONFIG': '"logging.config.fileConfig"',
                  'LOGGING': 'r"%s"' % self.temp_file.name}

tests/mail/tests.py

@@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ class FakeSMTPServer(smtpd.SMTPServer, threading.Thread):
         self.sink_lock = threading.Lock()
 
     def process_message(self, peer, mailfrom, rcpttos, data):
-        data = data.encode('utf-8')
+        data = data.encode()
         m = message_from_bytes(data)
         maddr = parseaddr(m.get('from'))[1]
 
@@ -1419,7 +1419,7 @@ class SMTPBackendTests(BaseEmailBackendTests, SMTPBackendTestsBase):
 
             self.assertTrue(msg)
 
-            msg = msg.decode('utf-8')
+            msg = msg.decode()
             # The message only contains CRLF and not combinations of CRLF, LF, and CR.
             msg = msg.replace('\r\n', '')
             self.assertNotIn('\r', msg)

tests/middleware/tests.py

@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ class GZipMiddlewareTest(SimpleTestCase):
         r = GZipMiddleware().process_response(self.req, self.stream_resp_unicode)
         self.assertEqual(
             self.decompress(b''.join(r)),
-            b''.join(x.encode('utf-8') for x in self.sequence_unicode)
+            b''.join(x.encode() for x in self.sequence_unicode)
         )
         self.assertEqual(r.get('Content-Encoding'), 'gzip')
         self.assertFalse(r.has_header('Content-Length'))

tests/serializers/tests.py

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class SerializersTestBase:
             if isinstance(stream, StringIO):
                 self.assertEqual(string_data, stream.getvalue())
             else:
-                self.assertEqual(string_data, stream.content.decode('utf-8'))
+                self.assertEqual(string_data, stream.content.decode())
 
     def test_serialize_specific_fields(self):
         obj = ComplexModel(field1='first', field2='second', field3='third')

tests/servers/test_basehttp.py

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ class WSGIRequestHandlerTestCase(SimpleTestCase):
                 '%s:%s' % (k, v) for k, v in environ.items()
                 if k.startswith('HTTP_')
             )
-            yield (','.join(http_environ_items)).encode('utf-8')
+            yield (','.join(http_environ_items)).encode()
 
         rfile = BytesIO()
         rfile.write(b"GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n")

tests/signing/tests.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class TestSigner(SimpleTestCase):
         for s in (
             b'hello',
             b'3098247:529:087:',
-            '\u2019'.encode('utf-8'),
+            '\u2019'.encode(),
         ):
             self.assertEqual(
                 signer.signature(s),

tests/sitemaps_tests/test_generic.py

@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ class GenericViewsSitemapTests(SitemapTestsBase):
 %s
 </urlset>
 """ % expected
-        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode('utf-8'), expected_content)
+        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode(), expected_content)

tests/sitemaps_tests/test_http.py

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class HTTPSitemapTests(SitemapTestsBase):
 <sitemap><loc>%s/simple/sitemap-simple.xml</loc></sitemap>
 </sitemapindex>
 """ % self.base_url
-        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode('utf-8'), expected_content)
+        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode(), expected_content)
 
     @override_settings(TEMPLATES=[{
         'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class HTTPSitemapTests(SitemapTestsBase):
 <sitemap><loc>%s/simple/sitemap-simple.xml</loc></sitemap>
 </sitemapindex>
 """ % self.base_url
-        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode('utf-8'), expected_content)
+        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode(), expected_content)
 
     def test_simple_sitemap_section(self):
         "A simple sitemap section can be rendered"
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class HTTPSitemapTests(SitemapTestsBase):
 <url><loc>%s/location/</loc><lastmod>%s</lastmod><changefreq>never</changefreq><priority>0.5</priority></url>
 </urlset>
 """ % (self.base_url, date.today())
-        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode('utf-8'), expected_content)
+        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode(), expected_content)
 
     def test_simple_sitemap(self):
         "A simple sitemap can be rendered"
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class HTTPSitemapTests(SitemapTestsBase):
 <url><loc>%s/location/</loc><lastmod>%s</lastmod><changefreq>never</changefreq><priority>0.5</priority></url>
 </urlset>
 """ % (self.base_url, date.today())
-        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode('utf-8'), expected_content)
+        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode(), expected_content)
 
     @override_settings(TEMPLATES=[{
         'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ class HTTPSitemapTests(SitemapTestsBase):
 <url><loc>%s/location/</loc><lastmod>%s</lastmod><changefreq>never</changefreq><priority>0.5</priority></url>
 </urlset>
 """ % (self.base_url, date.today())
-        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode('utf-8'), expected_content)
+        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode(), expected_content)
 
     def test_sitemap_last_modified(self):
         "Last-Modified header is set correctly"
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ class HTTPSitemapTests(SitemapTestsBase):
 <url><loc>http://testserver/location/</loc><lastmod>%s</lastmod><changefreq>never</changefreq><priority>0.5</priority></url>
 </urlset>
 """ % date.today()
-        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode('utf-8'), expected_content)
+        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode(), expected_content)
 
     @skipUnless(apps.is_installed('django.contrib.sites'),
                 "django.contrib.sites app not installed.")
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ class HTTPSitemapTests(SitemapTestsBase):
 <sitemap><loc>%s/cached/sitemap-simple.xml</loc></sitemap>
 </sitemapindex>
 """ % self.base_url
-        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode('utf-8'), expected_content)
+        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode(), expected_content)
 
     def test_x_robots_sitemap(self):
         response = self.client.get('/simple/index.xml')
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ class HTTPSitemapTests(SitemapTestsBase):
 <url><loc>{0}/en/i18n/testmodel/{1}/</loc><changefreq>never</changefreq><priority>0.5</priority></url><url><loc>{0}/pt/i18n/testmodel/{1}/</loc><changefreq>never</changefreq><priority>0.5</priority></url>
 </urlset>
 """.format(self.base_url, self.i18n_model.pk)
-        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode('utf-8'), expected_content)
+        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode(), expected_content)
 
     def test_sitemap_without_entries(self):
         response = self.client.get('/sitemap-without-entries/sitemap.xml')
@@ -237,4 +237,4 @@ class HTTPSitemapTests(SitemapTestsBase):
 <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
 
 </urlset>"""
-        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode('utf-8'), expected_content)
+        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode(), expected_content)

tests/sitemaps_tests/test_https.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class HTTPSSitemapTests(SitemapTestsBase):
 <sitemap><loc>%s/secure/sitemap-simple.xml</loc></sitemap>
 </sitemapindex>
 """ % self.base_url
-        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode('utf-8'), expected_content)
+        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode(), expected_content)
 
     def test_secure_sitemap_section(self):
         "A secure sitemap section can be rendered"
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class HTTPSSitemapTests(SitemapTestsBase):
 <url><loc>%s/location/</loc><lastmod>%s</lastmod><changefreq>never</changefreq><priority>0.5</priority></url>
 </urlset>
 """ % (self.base_url, date.today())
-        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode('utf-8'), expected_content)
+        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode(), expected_content)
 
 
 @override_settings(SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER=False)
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class HTTPSDetectionSitemapTests(SitemapTestsBase):
 <sitemap><loc>%s/simple/sitemap-simple.xml</loc></sitemap>
 </sitemapindex>
 """ % self.base_url.replace('http://', 'https://')
-        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode('utf-8'), expected_content)
+        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode(), expected_content)
 
     def test_sitemap_section_with_https_request(self):
         "A sitemap section requested in HTTPS is rendered with HTTPS links"
@@ -52,4 +52,4 @@ class HTTPSDetectionSitemapTests(SitemapTestsBase):
 <url><loc>%s/location/</loc><lastmod>%s</lastmod><changefreq>never</changefreq><priority>0.5</priority></url>
 </urlset>
 """ % (self.base_url.replace('http://', 'https://'), date.today())
-        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode('utf-8'), expected_content)
+        self.assertXMLEqual(response.content.decode(), expected_content)

tests/test_client_regress/tests.py

@@ -131,14 +131,14 @@ class AssertContainsTests(SimpleTestCase):
         # Regression test for #10183
         r = self.client.get('/check_unicode/')
         self.assertContains(r, 'さかき')
-        self.assertContains(r, b'\xe5\xb3\xa0'.decode('utf-8'))
+        self.assertContains(r, b'\xe5\xb3\xa0'.decode())
 
     def test_unicode_not_contains(self):
         "Unicode characters can be searched for, and not found in template context"
         # Regression test for #10183
         r = self.client.get('/check_unicode/')
         self.assertNotContains(r, 'はたけ')
-        self.assertNotContains(r, b'\xe3\x81\xaf\xe3\x81\x9f\xe3\x81\x91'.decode('utf-8'))
+        self.assertNotContains(r, b'\xe3\x81\xaf\xe3\x81\x9f\xe3\x81\x91'.decode())
 
     def test_binary_contains(self):
         r = self.client.get('/check_binary/')
@@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ class UnicodePayloadTests(SimpleTestCase):
         # Regression test for #10571
         json = '{"dog": "собака"}'
         response = self.client.post("/parse_unicode_json/", json, content_type="application/json; charset=utf-8")
-        self.assertEqual(response.content, json.encode('utf-8'))
+        self.assertEqual(response.content, json.encode())
 
     def test_unicode_payload_utf16(self):
         "A non-ASCII unicode data encoded as UTF-16 can be POSTed"

tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class TestEncodingUtils(SimpleTestCase):
         """
         error_msg = "This is an exception, voilà"
         exc = ValueError(error_msg)
-        self.assertEqual(force_bytes(exc), error_msg.encode('utf-8'))
+        self.assertEqual(force_bytes(exc), error_msg.encode())
         self.assertEqual(force_bytes(exc, encoding='ascii', errors='ignore'), b'This is an exception, voil')
 
     def test_force_bytes_strings_only(self):

tests/utils_tests/test_text.py

@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ class TestUtilsText(SimpleTestCase):
     def test_compress_sequence(self):
         data = [{'key': i} for i in range(10)]
         seq = list(json.JSONEncoder().iterencode(data))
-        seq = [s.encode('utf-8') for s in seq]
+        seq = [s.encode() for s in seq]
         actual_length = len(b''.join(seq))
         out = text.compress_sequence(seq)
         compressed_length = len(b''.join(out))

tests/view_tests/tests/test_i18n.py

@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ class JsI18NTests(SimpleTestCase):
         """
         with override('de'):
             response = self.client.get('/jsoni18n/')
-            data = json.loads(response.content.decode('utf-8'))
+            data = json.loads(response.content.decode())
             self.assertIn('catalog', data)
             self.assertIn('formats', data)
             self.assertIn('plural', data)
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ class JsI18NTests(SimpleTestCase):
         """
         with self.settings(LANGUAGE_CODE='es'), override('en-us'):
             response = self.client.get('/jsoni18n/')
-            data = json.loads(response.content.decode('utf-8'))
+            data = json.loads(response.content.decode())
             self.assertIn('catalog', data)
             self.assertIn('formats', data)
             self.assertIn('plural', data)