I get where you're coming from since they're not identical functions. I'm not sure what's the best way forward here is. According to https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/utils/ there's [force_unicode](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/utils/#django.utils.encoding.force_unicode) which is the historical name of ```force_text()```, but only available under Python 2. Since Django < 1.5 doesn't run on python 3, maybe just skip those tests on python 2 + django < 1.5?