Refs #23919 -- Removed default 'utf-8' argument for str.encode()/decode().

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py b/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py
index c1e3323f15..e3da394e77 100644
--- a/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py
+++ b/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class TestEncodingUtils(SimpleTestCase):
         """
         error_msg = "This is an exception, voilà"
         exc = ValueError(error_msg)
-        self.assertEqual(force_bytes(exc), error_msg.encode('utf-8'))
+        self.assertEqual(force_bytes(exc), error_msg.encode())
         self.assertEqual(force_bytes(exc, encoding='ascii', errors='ignore'), b'This is an exception, voil')
 
     def test_force_bytes_strings_only(self):
diff --git a/tests/utils_tests/test_text.py b/tests/utils_tests/test_text.py
index a869ced774..465db554da 100644
--- a/tests/utils_tests/test_text.py
+++ b/tests/utils_tests/test_text.py
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ class TestUtilsText(SimpleTestCase):
     def test_compress_sequence(self):
         data = [{'key': i} for i in range(10)]
         seq = list(json.JSONEncoder().iterencode(data))
-        seq = [s.encode('utf-8') for s in seq]
+        seq = [s.encode() for s in seq]
         actual_length = len(b''.join(seq))
         out = text.compress_sequence(seq)
         compressed_length = len(b''.join(out))