Fixed #24677 -- Made TextField.to_python() return a string.

This is consistent with CharField.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py b/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py
index e6fa29a565..3215927ea0 100644
--- a/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py
+++ b/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py
@@ -2141,12 +2141,15 @@ class TextField(Field):
     def get_internal_type(self):
         return "TextField"
 
-    def get_prep_value(self, value):
-        value = super(TextField, self).get_prep_value(value)
+    def to_python(self, value):
         if isinstance(value, six.string_types) or value is None:
             return value
         return smart_text(value)
 
+    def get_prep_value(self, value):
+        value = super(TextField, self).get_prep_value(value)
+        return self.to_python(value)
+
     def formfield(self, **kwargs):
         # Passing max_length to forms.CharField means that the value's length
         # will be validated twice. This is considered acceptable since we want