Refs #27795 -- Replaced many force_text() with str()

Thanks Tim Graham for the review.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/docs/howto/custom-model-fields.txt b/docs/howto/custom-model-fields.txt
index 54a62c50db..a64790b34c 100644
--- a/docs/howto/custom-model-fields.txt
+++ b/docs/howto/custom-model-fields.txt
@@ -706,10 +706,10 @@ smoothly:
 
 2. Put a ``__str__()`` method on the class you're wrapping up as a field. There
    are a lot of places where the default behavior of the field code is to call
-   :func:`~django.utils.encoding.force_text` on the value. (In our
-   examples in this document, ``value`` would be a ``Hand`` instance, not a
-   ``HandField``). So if your ``__str__()`` method automatically converts to
-   the string form of your Python object, you can save yourself a lot of work.
+   ``str()`` on the value. (In our examples in this document, ``value`` would
+   be a ``Hand`` instance, not a ``HandField``). So if your ``__str__()``
+   method automatically converts to the string form of your Python object, you
+   can save yourself a lot of work.
 
 Writing a ``FileField`` subclass
 ================================
diff --git a/docs/topics/serialization.txt b/docs/topics/serialization.txt
index fd1c8876ec..9a1b977d98 100644
--- a/docs/topics/serialization.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/serialization.txt
@@ -256,13 +256,12 @@ For example, if you have some custom type in an object to be serialized, you'll
 have to write a custom :mod:`json` encoder for it. Something like this will
 work::
 
-    from django.utils.encoding import force_text
     from django.core.serializers.json import DjangoJSONEncoder
 
     class LazyEncoder(DjangoJSONEncoder):
         def default(self, obj):
             if isinstance(obj, YourCustomType):
-                return force_text(obj)
+                return str(obj)
             return super().default(obj)
 
 You can then pass ``cls=LazyEncoder`` to the ``serializers.serialize()``