Replaced some smart_xxx by force_xxx equivalent

smart_str/smart_text should only be used when a potential lazy
string should be preserved in the result of the function call.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/django/core/cache/backends/memcached.py b/django/core/cache/backends/memcached.py
index 75ce26d20e..426a0a15c0 100644
--- a/django/core/cache/backends/memcached.py
+++ b/django/core/cache/backends/memcached.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from threading import local
 from django.core.cache.backends.base import BaseCache, InvalidCacheBackendError
 
 from django.utils import six
-from django.utils.encoding import smart_str
+from django.utils.encoding import force_str
 
 class BaseMemcachedCache(BaseCache):
     def __init__(self, server, params, library, value_not_found_exception):
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ class BaseMemcachedCache(BaseCache):
 
     def make_key(self, key, version=None):
         # Python 2 memcache requires the key to be a byte string.
-        return smart_str(super(BaseMemcachedCache, self).make_key(key, version))
+        return force_str(super(BaseMemcachedCache, self).make_key(key, version))
 
     def add(self, key, value, timeout=0, version=None):
         key = self.make_key(key, version=version)