Fixed #18719 -- Made force_bytes more consistent with force_text.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py b/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py
index 72c35adec6..5730eca6d5 100644
--- a/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py
+++ b/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py
@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import unittest
+import datetime
 
 from django.utils.encoding import force_bytes, filepath_to_uri
 
 
 class TestEncodingUtils(unittest.TestCase):
+
     def test_force_bytes_exception(self):
         """
         Test that force_bytes knows how to convert to bytes an exception
@@ -17,6 +19,10 @@ class TestEncodingUtils(unittest.TestCase):
         result = force_bytes(exc)
         self.assertEqual(result, error_msg.encode('utf-8'))
 
+    def test_force_bytes_strings_only(self):
+        today = datetime.date.today()
+        self.assertEqual(force_bytes(today, strings_only=True), today)
+
     def test_filepath_to_uri(self):
         self.assertEqual(filepath_to_uri('upload\\чубака.mp4'),
             'upload/%D1%87%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0.mp4')