From 73c40c5999d6945ada3e1da3c7ec693d977bffea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:52:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Backed out a portion of [4919] until I can make it worth
 smoothly with oldforms. Refs #3924.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@4933 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
---
 django/utils/html.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/django/utils/html.py b/django/utils/html.py
index d06440b52e..607362817b 100644
--- a/django/utils/html.py
+++ b/django/utils/html.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ del x # Temporary variable
 def escape(html):
     "Returns the given HTML with ampersands, quotes and carets encoded"
     if not isinstance(html, basestring):
-        html = smart_unicode(html)
+        html = str(html)
     return html.replace('&', '&amp;').replace('<', '&lt;').replace('>', '&gt;').replace('"', '&quot;').replace("'", '&#39;')
 
 def linebreaks(value):