cannot import name 'smart_text' from 'django.utils.encoding'

[MSoup]

My setup is Django 4.0, Python 3.8.10
I came across this issue while working with django-jenkins:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 22, in <module>
    main()
  File "manage.py", line 18, in main
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "C:\git\django-mssql\venv\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 425, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "C:\git\django-mssql\venv\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 419, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "C:\git\django-mssql\venv\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 263, in fetch_command
    klass = load_command_class(app_name, subcommand)
  File "C:\git\django-mssql\venv\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 39, in load_command_class
    module = import_module('%s.management.commands.%s' % (app_name, name))
  File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1014, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 783, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "C:\git\django-mssql\venv\lib\site-packages\django_jenkins\management\commands\jenkins.py", line 10, in <module>
    from django_jenkins.runner import CITestSuiteRunner
  File "C:\git\django-mssql\venv\lib\site-packages\django_jenkins\runner.py", line 9, in <module>
    from django.utils.encoding import smart_text
ImportError: cannot import name 'smart_text' from 'django.utils.encoding' (C:\git\django-mssql\venv\lib\site-packages\django\utils\encoding.py)

Upon doing some digging, it turns out that from django.utils.encoding has been rewritten a little. The only methods with "smart" in them are smart_str and smart_bytes. Thus, the solution is to change all occurences of smart_text to smart_str in runner.py

I just wanted to share this here in case anyone else came across this problem.

[WillWagnerIV]

Thanks to MSoup's suggestion I was able to solve this using the same fix in a standard Django setup in a venv.

I changed one instance of smart_text to smart_str in the file:

venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django_bootstrap_breadcrumbs/templatetags/django_bootstrap_breadcrumbs.py

Everything works again! Thanks!

[Lord-baba99]

Thanks, that work!!!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾