diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/admin/widgets.py b/django/contrib/gis/admin/widgets.py
index b76e860324f..4dca40150ff 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/admin/widgets.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/admin/widgets.py
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ class OpenLayersWidget(Textarea):
 
         # JavaScript construction utilities for the Bounds and Projection.
         def ol_bounds(extent):
-            return 'new OpenLayers.Bounds(%s)' % str(extent)
+            return 'new OpenLayers.Bounds(%s)' % extent
 
         def ol_projection(srid):
             return 'new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:%s")' % srid
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/postgis/adapter.py b/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/postgis/adapter.py
index 84ec5bfae93..a3ec99de466 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/postgis/adapter.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/postgis/adapter.py
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ class PostGISAdapter:
         """
         if self.is_geometry:
             # Psycopg will figure out whether to use E'\\000' or '\000'.
-            return str('%s(%s)' % (
+            return '%s(%s)' % (
                 'ST_GeogFromWKB' if self.geography else 'ST_GeomFromEWKB',
-                self._adapter.getquoted().decode())
+                self._adapter.getquoted().decode()
             )
         else:
             # For rasters, add explicit type cast to WKB string.
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/db/models/functions.py b/django/contrib/gis/db/models/functions.py
index 0a5c14f7a76..5454b2a7409 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/db/models/functions.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/db/models/functions.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ class GeoFunc(Func):
             if check_types and not isinstance(value, check_types):
                 raise TypeError(
                     "The %s parameter has the wrong type: should be %s." % (
-                        param_name, str(check_types))
+                        param_name, check_types)
                 )
         return value
 
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/gdal/datasource.py b/django/contrib/gis/gdal/datasource.py
index 3008da804cf..7759fd79ae0 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/gdal/datasource.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/gdal/datasource.py
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class DataSource(GDALBase):
 
     def __str__(self):
         "Returns OGR GetName and Driver for the Data Source."
-        return '%s (%s)' % (self.name, str(self.driver))
+        return '%s (%s)' % (self.name, self.driver)
 
     @property
     def layer_count(self):
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/gdal/driver.py b/django/contrib/gis/gdal/driver.py
index 20ebaeff20b..fb348bb3773 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/gdal/driver.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/gdal/driver.py
@@ -60,11 +60,11 @@ class Driver(GDALBase):
         elif isinstance(dr_input, c_void_p):
             driver = dr_input
         else:
-            raise GDALException('Unrecognized input type for GDAL/OGR Driver: %s' % str(type(dr_input)))
+            raise GDALException('Unrecognized input type for GDAL/OGR Driver: %s' % type(dr_input))
 
         # Making sure we get a valid pointer to the OGR Driver
         if not driver:
-            raise GDALException('Could not initialize GDAL/OGR Driver on input: %s' % str(dr_input))
+            raise GDALException('Could not initialize GDAL/OGR Driver on input: %s' % dr_input)
         self.ptr = driver
 
     def __str__(self):
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/gdal/envelope.py b/django/contrib/gis/gdal/envelope.py
index e7c7e3dde1b..4cf30c06d96 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/gdal/envelope.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/gdal/envelope.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class Envelope:
                 else:
                     self._from_sequence(args[0])
             else:
-                raise TypeError('Incorrect type of argument: %s' % str(type(args[0])))
+                raise TypeError('Incorrect type of argument: %s' % type(args[0]))
         elif len(args) == 4:
             # Individual parameters passed in.
             #  Thanks to ww for the help
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ class Envelope:
                 else:
                     raise GDALException('Incorrect number of tuple elements (%d).' % len(args[0]))
             else:
-                raise TypeError('Incorrect type of argument: %s' % str(type(args[0])))
+                raise TypeError('Incorrect type of argument: %s' % type(args[0]))
         elif len(args) == 2:
             # An x and an y parameter were passed in
                 return self.expand_to_include((args[0], args[1], args[0], args[1]))
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/gdal/geometries.py b/django/contrib/gis/gdal/geometries.py
index 1dd85ac1397..b1acc5bf5bd 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/gdal/geometries.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/gdal/geometries.py
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class OGRGeometry(GDALBase):
         # Now checking the Geometry pointer before finishing initialization
         # by setting the pointer for the object.
         if not g:
-            raise GDALException('Cannot create OGR Geometry from input: %s' % str(geom_input))
+            raise GDALException('Cannot create OGR Geometry from input: %s' % geom_input)
         self.ptr = g
 
         # Assigning the SpatialReference object to the geometry, if valid.
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ class LineString(OGRGeometry):
             elif dim == 3:
                 return (x.value, y.value, z.value)
         else:
-            raise OGRIndexError('index out of range: %s' % str(index))
+            raise OGRIndexError('index out of range: %s' % index)
 
     def __iter__(self):
         "Iterates over each point in the LineString."
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/geos/coordseq.py b/django/contrib/gis/geos/coordseq.py
index 6908b040c08..f40d99865e2 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/geos/coordseq.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/geos/coordseq.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class GEOSCoordSeq(GEOSBase):
         "Checks the given index."
         sz = self.size
         if (sz < 1) or (index < 0) or (index >= sz):
-            raise IndexError('invalid GEOS Geometry index: %s' % str(index))
+            raise IndexError('invalid GEOS Geometry index: %s' % index)
 
     def _checkdim(self, dim):
         "Checks the given dimension."
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/geos/geometry.py b/django/contrib/gis/geos/geometry.py
index 2ff4037764e..f4735065398 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/geos/geometry.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/geos/geometry.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class GEOSGeometry(GEOSBase, ListMixin):
             g = capi.geom_clone(geo_input.ptr)
         else:
             # Invalid geometry type.
-            raise TypeError('Improper geometry input type: %s' % str(type(geo_input)))
+            raise TypeError('Improper geometry input type: %s' % type(geo_input))
 
         if g:
             # Setting the pointer object with a valid pointer.
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/geos/mutable_list.py b/django/contrib/gis/geos/mutable_list.py
index d6e36db31ab..c7fb703ce1c 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/geos/mutable_list.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/geos/mutable_list.py
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ class ListMixin:
         for i in range(0, len(self)):
             if self[i] == val:
                 return i
-        raise ValueError('%s not found in object' % str(val))
+        raise ValueError('%s not found in object' % val)
 
     # ## Mutating ##
     def append(self, val):
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ class ListMixin:
             return index
         if correct and -length <= index < 0:
             return index + length
-        raise IndexError('invalid index: %s' % str(index))
+        raise IndexError('invalid index: %s' % index)
 
     def _check_allowed(self, items):
         if hasattr(self, '_allowed'):
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/geos/point.py b/django/contrib/gis/geos/point.py
index 72de47f9f6d..6486b2a5e13 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/geos/point.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/geos/point.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class Point(GEOSGeometry):
             return capi.create_point(None)
 
         if ndim < 2 or ndim > 3:
-            raise TypeError('Invalid point dimension: %s' % str(ndim))
+            raise TypeError('Invalid point dimension: %s' % ndim)
 
         cs = capi.create_cs(c_uint(1), c_uint(ndim))
         i = iter(coords)
diff --git a/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py b/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py
index c61dae1dfa0..7d8a12176a5 100644
--- a/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py
+++ b/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py
@@ -153,9 +153,9 @@ class WSGIHandler(base.BaseHandler):
         response._handler_class = self.__class__
 
         status = '%d %s' % (response.status_code, response.reason_phrase)
-        response_headers = [(str(k), str(v)) for k, v in response.items()]
+        response_headers = list(response.items())
         for c in response.cookies.values():
-            response_headers.append((str('Set-Cookie'), str(c.output(header=''))))
+            response_headers.append(('Set-Cookie', c.output(header='')))
         start_response(status, response_headers)
         if getattr(response, 'file_to_stream', None) is not None and environ.get('wsgi.file_wrapper'):
             response = environ['wsgi.file_wrapper'](response.file_to_stream)
@@ -208,9 +208,9 @@ def get_bytes_from_wsgi(environ, key, default):
     """
     Get a value from the WSGI environ dictionary as bytes.
 
-    key and default should be str objects.
+    key and default should be strings.
     """
-    value = environ.get(str(key), str(default))
+    value = environ.get(key, default)
     # Non-ASCII values in the WSGI environ are arbitrarily decoded with
     # ISO-8859-1. This is wrong for Django websites where UTF-8 is the default.
     # Re-encode to recover the original bytestring.
diff --git a/django/core/mail/message.py b/django/core/mail/message.py
index 228084f2d1e..dd5e1e6d7bb 100644
--- a/django/core/mail/message.py
+++ b/django/core/mail/message.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def forbid_multi_line_headers(name, val, encoding):
     else:
         if name.lower() == 'subject':
             val = Header(val).encode()
-    return str(name), val
+    return name, val
 
 
 def split_addr(addr, encoding):
diff --git a/django/core/management/commands/makemessages.py b/django/core/management/commands/makemessages.py
index 5b74ddaa0d1..029d5163a53 100644
--- a/django/core/management/commands/makemessages.py
+++ b/django/core/management/commands/makemessages.py
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
         self.process_files(file_list)
         potfiles = []
         for path in self.locale_paths:
-            potfile = os.path.join(path, '%s.pot' % str(self.domain))
+            potfile = os.path.join(path, '%s.pot' % self.domain)
             if not os.path.exists(potfile):
                 continue
             args = ['msguniq'] + self.msguniq_options + [potfile]
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
 
     def remove_potfiles(self):
         for path in self.locale_paths:
-            pot_path = os.path.join(path, '%s.pot' % str(self.domain))
+            pot_path = os.path.join(path, '%s.pot' % self.domain)
             if os.path.exists(pot_path):
                 os.unlink(pot_path)
 
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
                 )
             for build_file in build_files:
                 msgs = build_file.postprocess_messages(msgs)
-            potfile = os.path.join(locale_dir, '%s.pot' % str(self.domain))
+            potfile = os.path.join(locale_dir, '%s.pot' % self.domain)
             write_pot_file(potfile, msgs)
 
         for build_file in build_files:
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
         basedir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(potfile), locale, 'LC_MESSAGES')
         if not os.path.isdir(basedir):
             os.makedirs(basedir)
-        pofile = os.path.join(basedir, '%s.po' % str(self.domain))
+        pofile = os.path.join(basedir, '%s.po' % self.domain)
 
         if os.path.exists(pofile):
             args = ['msgmerge'] + self.msgmerge_options + [pofile, potfile]
diff --git a/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py b/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py
index e5dcaa1771f..61a275d61f4 100644
--- a/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py
+++ b/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
             # We rely on the environment because it's currently the only
             # way to reach WSGIRequestHandler. This seems an acceptable
             # compromise considering `runserver` runs indefinitely.
-            os.environ[str("DJANGO_COLORS")] = str("nocolor")
+            os.environ["DJANGO_COLORS"] = "nocolor"
         super(Command, self).execute(*args, **options)
 
     def get_handler(self, *args, **options):
diff --git a/django/core/servers/basehttp.py b/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
index b706f74ec85..a9ab0668f79 100644
--- a/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
+++ b/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ class WSGIRequestHandler(simple_server.WSGIRequestHandler):
         }
         if args[1][0] == '4':
             # 0x16 = Handshake, 0x03 = SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.x
-            if args[0].startswith(str('\x16\x03')):
+            if args[0].startswith('\x16\x03'):
                 extra['status_code'] = 500
                 logger.error(
                     "You're accessing the development server over HTTPS, but "
diff --git a/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py b/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py
index 44f81c8ba11..07c4ceb1e74 100644
--- a/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py
+++ b/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py
@@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ def decoder(conv_func):
     return lambda s: conv_func(s.decode('utf-8'))
 
 
-Database.register_converter(str("bool"), decoder(lambda s: s == '1'))
-Database.register_converter(str("time"), decoder(parse_time))
-Database.register_converter(str("date"), decoder(parse_date))
-Database.register_converter(str("datetime"), decoder(parse_datetime))
-Database.register_converter(str("timestamp"), decoder(parse_datetime))
-Database.register_converter(str("TIMESTAMP"), decoder(parse_datetime))
-Database.register_converter(str("decimal"), decoder(backend_utils.typecast_decimal))
+Database.register_converter("bool", decoder(lambda s: s == '1'))
+Database.register_converter("time", decoder(parse_time))
+Database.register_converter("date", decoder(parse_date))
+Database.register_converter("datetime", decoder(parse_datetime))
+Database.register_converter("timestamp", decoder(parse_datetime))
+Database.register_converter("TIMESTAMP", decoder(parse_datetime))
+Database.register_converter("decimal", decoder(backend_utils.typecast_decimal))
 
 Database.register_adapter(decimal.Decimal, backend_utils.rev_typecast_decimal)
 
diff --git a/django/db/models/base.py b/django/db/models/base.py
index 047f90ec733..66b671698d3 100644
--- a/django/db/models/base.py
+++ b/django/db/models/base.py
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ from django.utils.version import get_version
 
 class Deferred:
     def __repr__(self):
-        return str('<Deferred field>')
+        return '<Deferred field>'
 
     def __str__(self):
-        return str('<Deferred field>')
+        return '<Deferred field>'
 
 
 DEFERRED = Deferred()
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class ModelBase(type):
             new_class.add_to_class(
                 'DoesNotExist',
                 subclass_exception(
-                    str('DoesNotExist'),
+                    'DoesNotExist',
                     tuple(
                         x.DoesNotExist for x in parents if hasattr(x, '_meta') and not x._meta.abstract
                     ) or (ObjectDoesNotExist,),
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ class ModelBase(type):
             new_class.add_to_class(
                 'MultipleObjectsReturned',
                 subclass_exception(
-                    str('MultipleObjectsReturned'),
+                    'MultipleObjectsReturned',
                     tuple(
                         x.MultipleObjectsReturned for x in parents if hasattr(x, '_meta') and not x._meta.abstract
                     ) or (MultipleObjectsReturned,),
diff --git a/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py b/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py
index 26b0bb23780..fabd291159e 100644
--- a/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py
+++ b/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py
@@ -32,9 +32,7 @@ from django.utils.itercompat import is_iterable
 from django.utils.text import capfirst
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 
-# Avoid "TypeError: Item in ``from list'' not a string" -- unicode_literals
-# makes these strings unicode
-__all__ = [str(x) for x in (
+__all__ = [
     'AutoField', 'BLANK_CHOICE_DASH', 'BigAutoField', 'BigIntegerField',
     'BinaryField', 'BooleanField', 'CharField', 'CommaSeparatedIntegerField',
     'DateField', 'DateTimeField', 'DecimalField', 'DurationField',
@@ -43,7 +41,7 @@ __all__ = [str(x) for x in (
     'NOT_PROVIDED', 'NullBooleanField', 'PositiveIntegerField',
     'PositiveSmallIntegerField', 'SlugField', 'SmallIntegerField', 'TextField',
     'TimeField', 'URLField', 'UUIDField',
-)]
+]
 
 
 class Empty:
diff --git a/django/db/models/fields/files.py b/django/db/models/fields/files.py
index d1937bd5dbe..4e678ea6727 100644
--- a/django/db/models/fields/files.py
+++ b/django/db/models/fields/files.py
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ class FileField(Field):
     def get_prep_value(self, value):
         "Returns field's value prepared for saving into a database."
         value = super(FileField, self).get_prep_value(value)
-        # Need to convert File objects provided via a form to unicode for database insertion
+        # Need to convert File objects provided via a form to string for database insertion
         if value is None:
             return None
         return str(value)
diff --git a/django/db/models/indexes.py b/django/db/models/indexes.py
index 03aa06fa524..7721826380c 100644
--- a/django/db/models/indexes.py
+++ b/django/db/models/indexes.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import hashlib
 
 from django.utils.encoding import force_bytes
 
-__all__ = [str('Index')]
+__all__ = ['Index']
 
 # The max length of the names of the indexes (restricted to 30 due to Oracle)
 MAX_NAME_LENGTH = 30
diff --git a/django/http/cookie.py b/django/http/cookie.py
index fb0a7786ef9..36945ce106d 100644
--- a/django/http/cookie.py
+++ b/django/http/cookie.py
@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@ def parse_cookie(cookie):
     Return a dictionary parsed from a `Cookie:` header string.
     """
     cookiedict = {}
-    for chunk in cookie.split(str(';')):
-        if str('=') in chunk:
-            key, val = chunk.split(str('='), 1)
+    for chunk in cookie.split(';'):
+        if '=' in chunk:
+            key, val = chunk.split('=', 1)
         else:
             # Assume an empty name per
             # https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169091
-            key, val = str(''), chunk
+            key, val = '', chunk
         key, val = key.strip(), val.strip()
         if key or val:
             # unquote using Python's algorithm.
diff --git a/django/http/request.py b/django/http/request.py
index 6f3b0c9951e..554e05217d8 100644
--- a/django/http/request.py
+++ b/django/http/request.py
@@ -509,11 +509,11 @@ class QueryDict(MultiValueDict):
 # this slightly more restricted function, used by QueryDict.
 def bytes_to_text(s, encoding):
     """
-    Converts basestring objects to unicode, using the given encoding. Illegally
+    Convert bytes objects to strings, using the given encoding. Illegally
     encoded input characters are replaced with Unicode "unknown" codepoint
     (\ufffd).
 
-    Returns any non-basestring objects without change.
+    Return any non-bytes objects without change.
     """
     if isinstance(s, bytes):
         return str(s, encoding, 'replace')
diff --git a/django/http/response.py b/django/http/response.py
index e992adaed54..9c697f5b88b 100644
--- a/django/http/response.py
+++ b/django/http/response.py
@@ -124,8 +124,7 @@ class HttpResponseBase:
                 value = value.decode(charset)
         except UnicodeError as e:
             if mime_encode:
-                # Wrapping in str() is a workaround for #12422 under Python 2.
-                value = str(Header(value, 'utf-8', maxlinelen=sys.maxsize).encode())
+                value = Header(value, 'utf-8', maxlinelen=sys.maxsize).encode()
             else:
                 e.reason += ', HTTP response headers must be in %s format' % charset
                 raise
diff --git a/django/test/client.py b/django/test/client.py
index 20c968bb3f1..f09051d2d5a 100644
--- a/django/test/client.py
+++ b/django/test/client.py
@@ -281,15 +281,15 @@ class RequestFactory:
         # See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3333/#environ-variables
         environ = {
             'HTTP_COOKIE': self.cookies.output(header='', sep='; '),
-            'PATH_INFO': str('/'),
-            'REMOTE_ADDR': str('127.0.0.1'),
-            'REQUEST_METHOD': str('GET'),
-            'SCRIPT_NAME': str(''),
-            'SERVER_NAME': str('testserver'),
-            'SERVER_PORT': str('80'),
-            'SERVER_PROTOCOL': str('HTTP/1.1'),
+            'PATH_INFO': '/',
+            'REMOTE_ADDR': '127.0.0.1',
+            'REQUEST_METHOD': 'GET',
+            'SCRIPT_NAME': '',
+            'SERVER_NAME': 'testserver',
+            'SERVER_PORT': '80',
+            'SERVER_PROTOCOL': 'HTTP/1.1',
             'wsgi.version': (1, 0),
-            'wsgi.url_scheme': str('http'),
+            'wsgi.url_scheme': 'http',
             'wsgi.input': FakePayload(b''),
             'wsgi.errors': self.errors,
             'wsgi.multiprocess': True,
@@ -393,14 +393,14 @@ class RequestFactory:
         data = force_bytes(data, settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET)
         r = {
             'PATH_INFO': self._get_path(parsed),
-            'REQUEST_METHOD': str(method),
-            'SERVER_PORT': str('443') if secure else str('80'),
-            'wsgi.url_scheme': str('https') if secure else str('http'),
+            'REQUEST_METHOD': method,
+            'SERVER_PORT': '443' if secure else '80',
+            'wsgi.url_scheme': 'https' if secure else 'http',
         }
         if data:
             r.update({
                 'CONTENT_LENGTH': len(data),
-                'CONTENT_TYPE': str(content_type),
+                'CONTENT_TYPE': content_type,
                 'wsgi.input': FakePayload(data),
             })
         r.update(extra)
diff --git a/django/test/selenium.py b/django/test/selenium.py
index 236f7d80534..e1415339dd1 100644
--- a/django/test/selenium.py
+++ b/django/test/selenium.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class SeleniumTestCaseBase(type(LiveServerTestCase)):
             for browser in test_class.browsers[1:]:
                 browser_test_class = cls.__new__(
                     cls,
-                    str("%s%s" % (capfirst(browser), name)),
+                    "%s%s" % (capfirst(browser), name),
                     (test_class,),
                     {'browser': browser, '__module__': test_class.__module__}
                 )
diff --git a/django/urls/resolvers.py b/django/urls/resolvers.py
index 6084684d737..376aedc3c1d 100644
--- a/django/urls/resolvers.py
+++ b/django/urls/resolvers.py
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ class RegexURLResolver(LocaleRegexProvider):
             urlconf_repr = '<%s list>' % self.urlconf_name[0].__class__.__name__
         else:
             urlconf_repr = repr(self.urlconf_name)
-        return str('<%s %s (%s:%s) %s>') % (
+        return '<%s %s (%s:%s) %s>' % (
             self.__class__.__name__, urlconf_repr, self.app_name,
             self.namespace, self.regex.pattern,
         )
diff --git a/django/utils/html.py b/django/utils/html.py
index 63335d74b41..fb9c18219c6 100644
--- a/django/utils/html.py
+++ b/django/utils/html.py
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ def smart_urlquote(url):
         # Tilde is part of RFC3986 Unreserved Characters
         # http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.3
         # See also http://bugs.python.org/issue16285
-        segment = quote(segment, safe=RFC3986_SUBDELIMS + RFC3986_GENDELIMS + str('~'))
+        segment = quote(segment, safe=RFC3986_SUBDELIMS + RFC3986_GENDELIMS + '~')
         return force_text(segment)
 
     # Handle IDN before quoting.
diff --git a/django/utils/http.py b/django/utils/http.py
index 57918568131..7b15dc28125 100644
--- a/django/utils/http.py
+++ b/django/utils/http.py
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ RFC1123_DATE = re.compile(r'^\w{3}, %s %s %s %s GMT$' % (__D, __M, __Y, __T))
 RFC850_DATE = re.compile(r'^\w{6,9}, %s-%s-%s %s GMT$' % (__D, __M, __Y2, __T))
 ASCTIME_DATE = re.compile(r'^\w{3} %s %s %s %s$' % (__M, __D2, __T, __Y))
 
-RFC3986_GENDELIMS = str(":/?#[]@")
-RFC3986_SUBDELIMS = str("!$&'()*+,;=")
+RFC3986_GENDELIMS = ":/?#[]@"
+RFC3986_SUBDELIMS = "!$&'()*+,;="
 
 FIELDS_MATCH = re.compile('[&;]')
 
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ def limited_parse_qsl(qs, keep_blank_values=False, encoding='utf-8',
     for name_value in pairs:
         if not name_value:
             continue
-        nv = name_value.split(str('='), 1)
+        nv = name_value.split('=', 1)
         if len(nv) != 2:
             # Handle case of a control-name with no equal sign
             if keep_blank_values:
diff --git a/django/utils/safestring.py b/django/utils/safestring.py
index fe5ca422c3f..2dfbd01cfe6 100644
--- a/django/utils/safestring.py
+++ b/django/utils/safestring.py
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ def _safety_decorator(safety_marker, func):
 def mark_safe(s):
     """
     Explicitly mark a string as safe for (HTML) output purposes. The returned
-    object can be used everywhere a string or unicode object is appropriate.
+    object can be used everywhere a string is appropriate.
 
     If used on a method as a decorator, mark the returned data as safe.
 
diff --git a/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py b/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py
index 14bb0ce786e..62ff122621b 100644
--- a/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py
+++ b/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py
@@ -307,8 +307,7 @@ def do_translate(message, translation_function):
     """
     global _default
 
-    # str() is allowing a bytestring message to remain bytestring on Python 2
-    eol_message = message.replace(str('\r\n'), str('\n')).replace(str('\r'), str('\n'))
+    eol_message = message.replace('\r\n', '\n').replace('\r', '\n')
 
     if len(eol_message) == 0:
         # Returns an empty value of the corresponding type if an empty message
diff --git a/django/utils/version.py b/django/utils/version.py
index e9666f906e1..b80d445d0c8 100644
--- a/django/utils/version.py
+++ b/django/utils/version.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def get_version(version=None):
         mapping = {'alpha': 'a', 'beta': 'b', 'rc': 'rc'}
         sub = mapping[version[3]] + str(version[4])
 
-    return str(main + sub)
+    return main + sub
 
 
 def get_main_version(version=None):
diff --git a/tests/admin_scripts/tests.py b/tests/admin_scripts/tests.py
index 25e6487a0fb..bccefc2d19d 100644
--- a/tests/admin_scripts/tests.py
+++ b/tests/admin_scripts/tests.py
@@ -145,14 +145,13 @@ class AdminScriptTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
         # Set the test environment
         if settings_file:
-            test_environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = str(settings_file)
+            test_environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = settings_file
         elif 'DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE' in test_environ:
             del test_environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE']
         python_path = [base_dir, django_dir, tests_dir]
         python_path.extend(ext_backend_base_dirs)
-        # Use native strings for better compatibility
-        test_environ[str(python_path_var_name)] = os.pathsep.join(python_path)
-        test_environ[str('PYTHONWARNINGS')] = str('')
+        test_environ[python_path_var_name] = os.pathsep.join(python_path)
+        test_environ['PYTHONWARNINGS'] = ''
 
         # Move to the test directory and run
         os.chdir(self.test_dir)
diff --git a/tests/auth_tests/test_management.py b/tests/auth_tests/test_management.py
index 00864be47a0..15ff551211b 100644
--- a/tests/auth_tests/test_management.py
+++ b/tests/auth_tests/test_management.py
@@ -37,10 +37,7 @@ def mock_inputs(inputs):
                     return inputs['password']
 
             def mock_input(prompt):
-                # prompt should be encoded in Python 2. This line will raise an
-                # Exception if prompt contains unencoded non-ASCII on Python 2.
-                prompt = str(prompt)
-                assert str('__proxy__') not in prompt
+                assert '__proxy__' not in prompt
                 response = ''
                 for key, val in inputs.items():
                     if key in prompt.lower():
diff --git a/tests/builtin_server/tests.py b/tests/builtin_server/tests.py
index 6e234c1ba4a..a294339f85d 100644
--- a/tests/builtin_server/tests.py
+++ b/tests/builtin_server/tests.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ MAX_SOCKET_CHUNK_SIZE = 32 * 1024 * 1024  # 32 MB
 
 
 class ServerHandler(simple_server.ServerHandler):
-    error_status = str("500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR")
+    error_status = "500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR"
 
     def write(self, data):
         """'write()' callable as specified by PEP 3333"""
@@ -55,12 +55,12 @@ class FileWrapperHandler(ServerHandler):
 
 
 def wsgi_app(environ, start_response):
-    start_response(str('200 OK'), [(str('Content-Type'), str('text/plain'))])
+    start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/plain')])
     return [b'Hello World!']
 
 
 def wsgi_app_file_wrapper(environ, start_response):
-    start_response(str('200 OK'), [(str('Content-Type'), str('text/plain'))])
+    start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/plain')])
     return environ['wsgi.file_wrapper'](BytesIO(b'foo'))
 
 
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class WriteChunkCounterHandler(ServerHandler):
 
 
 def send_big_data_app(environ, start_response):
-    start_response(str('200 OK'), [(str('Content-Type'), str('text/plain'))])
+    start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/plain')])
     # Return a blob of data that is 1.5 times the maximum chunk size.
     return [b'x' * (MAX_SOCKET_CHUNK_SIZE + MAX_SOCKET_CHUNK_SIZE // 2)]
 
diff --git a/tests/forms_tests/tests/tests.py b/tests/forms_tests/tests/tests.py
index 0119410fc86..fe72474537f 100644
--- a/tests/forms_tests/tests/tests.py
+++ b/tests/forms_tests/tests/tests.py
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ class RelatedModelFormTests(SimpleTestCase):
             fields = '__all__'
 
         with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
-            ModelFormMetaclass(str('Form'), (ModelForm,), {'Meta': Meta})
+            ModelFormMetaclass('Form', (ModelForm,), {'Meta': Meta})
 
         class B(models.Model):
             pass
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ class RelatedModelFormTests(SimpleTestCase):
             model = C
             fields = '__all__'
 
-        self.assertTrue(issubclass(ModelFormMetaclass(str('Form'), (ModelForm,), {'Meta': Meta}), ModelForm))
+        self.assertTrue(issubclass(ModelFormMetaclass('Form', (ModelForm,), {'Meta': Meta}), ModelForm))
 
 
 class ManyToManyExclusionTestCase(TestCase):
diff --git a/tests/get_object_or_404/tests.py b/tests/get_object_or_404/tests.py
index fa3c0cb3240..a72b766524b 100644
--- a/tests/get_object_or_404/tests.py
+++ b/tests/get_object_or_404/tests.py
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ class GetObjectOr404Tests(TestCase):
         # raises a helpful ValueError message
         msg = "First argument to get_object_or_404() must be a Model, Manager, or QuerySet, not 'str'."
         with self.assertRaisesMessage(ValueError, msg):
-            get_object_or_404(str("Article"), title__icontains="Run")
+            get_object_or_404("Article", title__icontains="Run")
 
         class CustomClass:
             pass
diff --git a/tests/get_or_create/tests.py b/tests/get_or_create/tests.py
index 27a0cb77377..a2a6e5a5a57 100644
--- a/tests/get_or_create/tests.py
+++ b/tests/get_or_create/tests.py
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ class GetOrCreateTestsWithManualPKs(TestCase):
             ManualPrimaryKeyTest.objects.get_or_create(id=1, data="Different")
         except IntegrityError:
             formatted_traceback = traceback.format_exc()
-            self.assertIn(str('obj.save'), formatted_traceback)
+            self.assertIn('obj.save', formatted_traceback)
 
     # MySQL emits a warning when broken data is saved
     @ignore_warnings(module='django.db.backends.mysql.base')
diff --git a/tests/httpwrappers/tests.py b/tests/httpwrappers/tests.py
index 612cbb45ef5..c58163b014d 100644
--- a/tests/httpwrappers/tests.py
+++ b/tests/httpwrappers/tests.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from django.utils.functional import lazystr
 
 class QueryDictTests(SimpleTestCase):
     def test_create_with_no_args(self):
-        self.assertEqual(QueryDict(), QueryDict(str('')))
+        self.assertEqual(QueryDict(), QueryDict(''))
 
     def test_missing_key(self):
         q = QueryDict()
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class QueryDictTests(SimpleTestCase):
     def test_single_key_value(self):
         """Test QueryDict with one key/value pair"""
 
-        q = QueryDict(str('foo=bar'))
+        q = QueryDict('foo=bar')
         self.assertEqual(q['foo'], 'bar')
         with self.assertRaises(KeyError):
             q.__getitem__('bar')
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ class QueryDictTests(SimpleTestCase):
     def test_multiple_keys(self):
         """Test QueryDict with two key/value pairs with same keys."""
 
-        q = QueryDict(str('vote=yes&vote=no'))
+        q = QueryDict('vote=yes&vote=no')
 
         self.assertEqual(q['vote'], 'no')
         with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):
@@ -209,23 +209,23 @@ class QueryDictTests(SimpleTestCase):
         q = QueryDict()
         q1 = pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(q, 2))
         self.assertEqual(q, q1)
-        q = QueryDict(str('a=b&c=d'))
+        q = QueryDict('a=b&c=d')
         q1 = pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(q, 2))
         self.assertEqual(q, q1)
-        q = QueryDict(str('a=b&c=d&a=1'))
+        q = QueryDict('a=b&c=d&a=1')
         q1 = pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(q, 2))
         self.assertEqual(q, q1)
 
     def test_update_from_querydict(self):
         """Regression test for #8278: QueryDict.update(QueryDict)"""
-        x = QueryDict(str("a=1&a=2"), mutable=True)
-        y = QueryDict(str("a=3&a=4"))
+        x = QueryDict("a=1&a=2", mutable=True)
+        y = QueryDict("a=3&a=4")
         x.update(y)
         self.assertEqual(x.getlist('a'), ['1', '2', '3', '4'])
 
     def test_non_default_encoding(self):
         """#13572 - QueryDict with a non-default encoding"""
-        q = QueryDict(str('cur=%A4'), encoding='iso-8859-15')
+        q = QueryDict('cur=%A4', encoding='iso-8859-15')
         self.assertEqual(q.encoding, 'iso-8859-15')
         self.assertEqual(list(q.items()), [('cur', '€')])
         self.assertEqual(q.urlencode(), 'cur=%A4')
@@ -280,16 +280,11 @@ class HttpResponseTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_headers_type(self):
         r = HttpResponse()
 
-        # The following tests explicitly test types in addition to values
-        # because in Python 2 u'foo' == b'foo'.
-
-        # ASCII unicode or bytes values are converted to native strings.
+        # ASCII unicode or bytes values are converted to strings.
         r['key'] = 'test'
-        self.assertEqual(r['key'], str('test'))
-        self.assertIsInstance(r['key'], str)
+        self.assertEqual(r['key'], 'test')
         r['key'] = 'test'.encode('ascii')
-        self.assertEqual(r['key'], str('test'))
-        self.assertIsInstance(r['key'], str)
+        self.assertEqual(r['key'], 'test')
         self.assertIn(b'test', r.serialize_headers())
 
         # Non-ASCII values are serialized to Latin-1.
@@ -298,8 +293,7 @@ class HttpResponseTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
         # Other unicode values are MIME-encoded (there's no way to pass them as bytes).
         r['key'] = '†'
-        self.assertEqual(r['key'], str('=?utf-8?b?4oCg?='))
-        self.assertIsInstance(r['key'], str)
+        self.assertEqual(r['key'], '=?utf-8?b?4oCg?=')
         self.assertIn(b'=?utf-8?b?4oCg?=', r.serialize_headers())
 
         # The response also converts unicode or bytes keys to strings, but requires
@@ -310,7 +304,6 @@ class HttpResponseTests(unittest.TestCase):
         headers = list(r.items())
         self.assertEqual(len(headers), 1)
         self.assertEqual(headers[0], ('foo', 'bar'))
-        self.assertIsInstance(headers[0][0], str)
 
         r = HttpResponse()
         del r['Content-Type']
diff --git a/tests/i18n/test_compilation.py b/tests/i18n/test_compilation.py
index 159b6d91ec6..5244832e2d5 100644
--- a/tests/i18n/test_compilation.py
+++ b/tests/i18n/test_compilation.py
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ class CompilationErrorHandling(MessageCompilationTests):
         # po file contains invalid msgstr content (triggers non-ascii error content).
         # Make sure the output of msgfmt is unaffected by the current locale.
         env = os.environ.copy()
-        env.update({str('LANG'): str('C')})
+        env.update({'LANG': 'C'})
         with mock.patch('django.core.management.utils.Popen', lambda *args, **kwargs: Popen(*args, env=env, **kwargs)):
             cmd = MakeMessagesCommand()
             if cmd.gettext_version < (0, 18, 3):
diff --git a/tests/i18n/tests.py b/tests/i18n/tests.py
index 181de62bea4..4f4801ba2c8 100644
--- a/tests/i18n/tests.py
+++ b/tests/i18n/tests.py
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ from django.utils.safestring import SafeBytes, SafeText
 from django.utils.translation import (
     LANGUAGE_SESSION_KEY, activate, check_for_language, deactivate,
     get_language, get_language_from_request, get_language_info, gettext_lazy,
-    ngettext_lazy, npgettext, npgettext_lazy, pgettext, trans_real, ugettext,
-    ugettext_lazy, ungettext, ungettext_lazy,
+    npgettext, npgettext_lazy, pgettext, trans_real, ugettext, ugettext_lazy,
+    ungettext, ungettext_lazy,
 )
 
 from .forms import CompanyForm, I18nForm, SelectDateForm
@@ -146,14 +146,11 @@ class TranslationTests(SimpleTestCase):
     @override_settings(LOCALE_PATHS=extended_locale_paths)
     def test_ungettext_lazy(self):
         simple_with_format = ungettext_lazy('%d good result', '%d good results')
-        simple_str_with_format = ngettext_lazy(str('%d good result'), str('%d good results'))
         simple_context_with_format = npgettext_lazy('Exclamation', '%d good result', '%d good results')
         simple_without_format = ungettext_lazy('good result', 'good results')
         with translation.override('de'):
             self.assertEqual(simple_with_format % 1, '1 gutes Resultat')
             self.assertEqual(simple_with_format % 4, '4 guten Resultate')
-            self.assertEqual(simple_str_with_format % 1, str('1 gutes Resultat'))
-            self.assertEqual(simple_str_with_format % 4, str('4 guten Resultate'))
             self.assertEqual(simple_context_with_format % 1, '1 gutes Resultat!')
             self.assertEqual(simple_context_with_format % 4, '4 guten Resultate!')
             self.assertEqual(simple_without_format % 1, 'gutes Resultat')
@@ -163,12 +160,6 @@ class TranslationTests(SimpleTestCase):
         complex_deferred = ungettext_lazy(
             'Hi %(name)s, %(num)d good result', 'Hi %(name)s, %(num)d good results', 'num'
         )
-        complex_str_nonlazy = ngettext_lazy(
-            str('Hi %(name)s, %(num)d good result'), str('Hi %(name)s, %(num)d good results'), 4
-        )
-        complex_str_deferred = ngettext_lazy(
-            str('Hi %(name)s, %(num)d good result'), str('Hi %(name)s, %(num)d good results'), 'num'
-        )
         complex_context_nonlazy = npgettext_lazy(
             'Greeting', 'Hi %(name)s, %(num)d good result', 'Hi %(name)s, %(num)d good results', 4
         )
@@ -181,11 +172,6 @@ class TranslationTests(SimpleTestCase):
             self.assertEqual(complex_deferred % {'name': 'Jim', 'num': 5}, 'Hallo Jim, 5 guten Resultate')
             with self.assertRaisesMessage(KeyError, 'Your dictionary lacks key'):
                 complex_deferred % {'name': 'Jim'}
-            self.assertEqual(complex_str_nonlazy % {'num': 4, 'name': 'Jim'}, str('Hallo Jim, 4 guten Resultate'))
-            self.assertEqual(complex_str_deferred % {'name': 'Jim', 'num': 1}, str('Hallo Jim, 1 gutes Resultat'))
-            self.assertEqual(complex_str_deferred % {'name': 'Jim', 'num': 5}, str('Hallo Jim, 5 guten Resultate'))
-            with self.assertRaisesMessage(KeyError, 'Your dictionary lacks key'):
-                complex_str_deferred % {'name': 'Jim'}
             self.assertEqual(complex_context_nonlazy % {'num': 4, 'name': 'Jim'}, 'Willkommen Jim, 4 guten Resultate')
             self.assertEqual(complex_context_deferred % {'name': 'Jim', 'num': 1}, 'Willkommen Jim, 1 gutes Resultat')
             self.assertEqual(complex_context_deferred % {'name': 'Jim', 'num': 5}, 'Willkommen Jim, 5 guten Resultate')
@@ -917,8 +903,8 @@ class FormattingTests(SimpleTestCase):
     def test_get_format_modules_stability(self):
         with self.settings(FORMAT_MODULE_PATH='i18n.other.locale'):
             with translation.override('de', deactivate=True):
-                old = str("%r") % get_format_modules(reverse=True)
-                new = str("%r") % get_format_modules(reverse=True)  # second try
+                old = "%r" % get_format_modules(reverse=True)
+                new = "%r" % get_format_modules(reverse=True)  # second try
                 self.assertEqual(new, old, 'Value returned by get_formats_modules() must be preserved between calls.')
 
     def test_localize_templatetag_and_filter(self):
diff --git a/tests/mail/tests.py b/tests/mail/tests.py
index 8019f3ccf88..f30734d72f8 100644
--- a/tests/mail/tests.py
+++ b/tests/mail/tests.py
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ class MailTests(HeadersCheckMixin, SimpleTestCase):
         s = msg.message().as_bytes()
         self.assertIn(b'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit', s)
         s = msg.message().as_string()
-        self.assertIn(str('Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'), s)
+        self.assertIn('Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit', s)
 
         msg = EmailMessage(
             'Subject', 'Body with non latin characters: А Б В Г Д Е Ж Ѕ З И І К Л М Н О П.', 'bounce@example.com',
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ class MailTests(HeadersCheckMixin, SimpleTestCase):
         s = msg.message().as_bytes()
         self.assertIn(b'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit', s)
         s = msg.message().as_string()
-        self.assertIn(str('Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'), s)
+        self.assertIn('Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit', s)
 
     def test_dont_base64_encode_message_rfc822(self):
         # Ticket #18967
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ class MailTests(HeadersCheckMixin, SimpleTestCase):
         parent_s = parent_msg.message().as_string()
 
         # The child message header is not base64 encoded
-        self.assertIn(str('Child Subject'), parent_s)
+        self.assertIn('Child Subject', parent_s)
 
         # Feature test: try attaching email.Message object directly to the mail.
         parent_msg = EmailMessage(
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ class MailTests(HeadersCheckMixin, SimpleTestCase):
         parent_s = parent_msg.message().as_string()
 
         # The child message header is not base64 encoded
-        self.assertIn(str('Child Subject'), parent_s)
+        self.assertIn('Child Subject', parent_s)
 
         # Feature test: try attaching Django's EmailMessage object directly to the mail.
         parent_msg = EmailMessage(
@@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ class MailTests(HeadersCheckMixin, SimpleTestCase):
         parent_s = parent_msg.message().as_string()
 
         # The child message header is not base64 encoded
-        self.assertIn(str('Child Subject'), parent_s)
+        self.assertIn('Child Subject', parent_s)
 
     def test_sanitize_address(self):
         """
@@ -700,11 +700,11 @@ class PythonGlobalState(SimpleTestCase):
 
     def test_8bit_latin(self):
         txt = MIMEText('Body with latin characters: àáä.', 'plain', 'utf-8')
-        self.assertIn(str('Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64'), txt.as_string())
+        self.assertIn('Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64', txt.as_string())
 
     def test_8bit_non_latin(self):
         txt = MIMEText('Body with non latin characters: А Б В Г Д Е Ж Ѕ З И І К Л М Н О П.', 'plain', 'utf-8')
-        self.assertIn(str('Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64'), txt.as_string())
+        self.assertIn('Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64', txt.as_string())
 
 
 class BaseEmailBackendTests(HeadersCheckMixin):
@@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@ class ConsoleBackendTests(BaseEmailBackendTests, SimpleTestCase):
         self.stream = sys.stdout = StringIO()
 
     def get_mailbox_content(self):
-        messages = self.stream.getvalue().split(str('\n' + ('-' * 79) + '\n'))
+        messages = self.stream.getvalue().split('\n' + ('-' * 79) + '\n')
         return [message_from_bytes(force_bytes(m)) for m in messages if m]
 
     def test_console_stream_kwarg(self):
@@ -1127,9 +1127,9 @@ class FakeSMTPChannel(smtpd.SMTPChannel):
             # This is only the first part of the login process. But it's enough
             # for our tests.
             challenge = base64.b64encode(b'somerandomstring13579')
-            self.push(str('334 %s' % challenge.decode()))
+            self.push('334 %s' % challenge.decode())
         else:
-            self.push(str('502 Error: login "%s" not implemented' % arg))
+            self.push('502 Error: login "%s" not implemented' % arg)
 
 
 class FakeSMTPServer(smtpd.SMTPServer, threading.Thread):
diff --git a/tests/migrations/test_writer.py b/tests/migrations/test_writer.py
index 0528583fccd..ec48e2ee8e3 100644
--- a/tests/migrations/test_writer.py
+++ b/tests/migrations/test_writer.py
@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@ import math
 import os
 import re
 import sys
-import tokenize
 import uuid
-from io import StringIO
 
 import custom_migration_operations.more_operations
 import custom_migration_operations.operations
@@ -20,7 +18,7 @@ from django.db import migrations, models
 from django.db.migrations.writer import (
     MigrationWriter, OperationWriter, SettingsReference,
 )
-from django.test import SimpleTestCase, ignore_warnings, mock
+from django.test import SimpleTestCase, mock
 from django.utils import datetime_safe
 from django.utils.deconstruct import deconstructible
 from django.utils.functional import SimpleLazyObject
@@ -552,22 +550,7 @@ class WriterTests(SimpleTestCase):
         # Just make sure it runs for now, and that things look alright.
         result = self.safe_exec(output)
         self.assertIn("Migration", result)
-        # In order to preserve compatibility with Python 3.2 unicode literals
-        # prefix shouldn't be added to strings.
-        tokens = tokenize.generate_tokens(StringIO(str(output)).readline)
-        for token_type, token_source, (srow, scol), __, line in tokens:
-            if token_type == tokenize.STRING:
-                self.assertFalse(
-                    token_source.startswith('u'),
-                    "Unicode literal prefix found at %d:%d: %r" % (
-                        srow, scol, line.strip()
-                    )
-                )
 
-    # Silence warning on Python 2: Not importing directory
-    # 'tests/migrations/migrations_test_apps/without_init_file/migrations':
-    # missing __init__.py
-    @ignore_warnings(category=ImportWarning)
     def test_migration_path(self):
         test_apps = [
             'migrations.migrations_test_apps.normal',
diff --git a/tests/servers/test_basehttp.py b/tests/servers/test_basehttp.py
index cf0f8ac41bc..2e547c43056 100644
--- a/tests/servers/test_basehttp.py
+++ b/tests/servers/test_basehttp.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class WSGIRequestHandlerTestCase(SimpleTestCase):
         handler = WSGIRequestHandler(request, '192.168.0.2', None)
 
         with patch_logger('django.server', 'error') as messages:
-            handler.log_message("GET %s %s", str('\x16\x03'), "4")
+            handler.log_message("GET %s %s", '\x16\x03', "4")
         self.assertIn(
             "You're accessing the development server over HTTPS, "
             "but it only supports HTTP.",
diff --git a/tests/str/tests.py b/tests/str/tests.py
index 2d82c03ebfa..db21ccb2d93 100644
--- a/tests/str/tests.py
+++ b/tests/str/tests.py
@@ -30,5 +30,5 @@ class SimpleTests(TestCase):
         # coerce the returned value.
         self.assertIsInstance(obj.__str__(), str)
         self.assertIsInstance(obj.__repr__(), str)
-        self.assertEqual(str(obj), str('Default object'))
-        self.assertEqual(repr(obj), str('<Default: Default object>'))
+        self.assertEqual(str(obj), 'Default object')
+        self.assertEqual(repr(obj), '<Default: Default object>')
diff --git a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/tests.py b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/tests.py
index a7f7c2fcc8a..a1241b2fabd 100644
--- a/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/tests.py
+++ b/tests/urlpatterns_reverse/tests.py
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ class URLPatternReverse(SimpleTestCase):
     def test_illegal_kwargs_message(self):
         msg = "Reverse for 'places' with keyword arguments '{'arg1': 2}' not found. 1 pattern(s) tried:"
         with self.assertRaisesMessage(NoReverseMatch, msg):
-            reverse('places', kwargs={str('arg1'): 2})
+            reverse('places', kwargs={'arg1': 2})
 
 
 class ResolverTests(SimpleTestCase):
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ class ResolverTests(SimpleTestCase):
         )
         for tried, expected in zip(e.args[0]['tried'], url_types_names):
             for t, e in zip(tried, expected):
-                self.assertIsInstance(t, e['type']), str('%s is not an instance of %s') % (t, e['type'])
+                self.assertIsInstance(t, e['type']), '%s is not an instance of %s' % (t, e['type'])
                 if 'name' in e:
                     if not e['name']:
                         self.assertIsNone(t.name, 'Expected no URL name but found %s.' % t.name)
diff --git a/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py b/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py
index ca9343674df..963d0a9a164 100644
--- a/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py
+++ b/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py
@@ -12,14 +12,12 @@ from django.utils.http import urlquote_plus
 class TestEncodingUtils(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_force_text_exception(self):
         """
-        Broken __unicode__/__str__ actually raises an error.
+        Broken __str__ actually raises an error.
         """
         class MyString:
             def __str__(self):
                 return b'\xc3\xb6\xc3\xa4\xc3\xbc'
 
-            __unicode__ = __str__
-
         # str(s) raises a TypeError if the result is not a text type.
         with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
             force_text(MyString())