Refs -- Removed force_bytes() usage in contrib/staticfiles/storage.py.
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ from django.core.cache import (
from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
from django.core.files.base import ContentFile
from django.core.files.storage import FileSystemStorage, get_storage_class
-from django.utils.encoding import force_bytes
from django.utils.functional import LazyObject
@@ -296,7 +295,7 @@ class HashedFilesMixin:
if hashed_file_exists:
self.delete(hashed_name)
# then save the processed result
- content_file = ContentFile(force_bytes(content))
+ content_file = ContentFile(content.encode())
# Save intermediate file for reference
saved_name = self._save(hashed_name, content_file)
hashed_name = self.hashed_name(name, content_file)
@@ -466,7 +465,7 @@ class CachedFilesMixin(HashedFilesMixin):
self.hashed_files = _MappingCache(default_cache)
def hash_key(self, name):
- key = hashlib.md5(force_bytes(self.clean_name(name))).hexdigest()
+ key = hashlib.md5(self.clean_name(name).encode()).hexdigest()
return 'staticfiles:%s' % key
