diff --git a/tests/auth_tests/test_views.py b/tests/auth_tests/test_views.py
index 42acafd26de..521013d18d2 100644
--- a/tests/auth_tests/test_views.py
+++ b/tests/auth_tests/test_views.py
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ class UUIDUserPasswordResetTest(CustomUserPasswordResetTest):
     def test_confirm_invalid_uuid(self):
         """A uidb64 that decodes to a non-UUID doesn't crash."""
         _, path = self._test_confirm_start()
-        invalid_uidb64 = urlsafe_base64_encode('INVALID_UUID'.encode())
+        invalid_uidb64 = urlsafe_base64_encode(b'INVALID_UUID')
         first, _uuidb64_, second = path.strip('/').split('/')
         response = self.client.get('/' + '/'.join((first, invalid_uidb64, second)) + '/')
         self.assertContains(response, 'The password reset link was invalid')
diff --git a/tests/httpwrappers/tests.py b/tests/httpwrappers/tests.py
index 0c81cd03418..bafdd2891cf 100644
--- a/tests/httpwrappers/tests.py
+++ b/tests/httpwrappers/tests.py
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ class HttpResponseTests(unittest.TestCase):
         # ASCII strings or bytes values are converted to strings.
         r['key'] = 'test'
         self.assertEqual(r['key'], 'test')
-        r['key'] = 'test'.encode('ascii')
+        r['key'] = b'test'
         self.assertEqual(r['key'], 'test')
         self.assertIn(b'test', r.serialize_headers())
 
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ class HttpResponseTests(unittest.TestCase):
         # Bug #20889: long lines trigger newlines to be added to headers
         # (which is not allowed due to bug #10188)
         h = HttpResponse()
-        f = 'zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz a\xcc\x88'.encode('latin-1')
+        f = b'zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz a\xcc\x88'
         f = f.decode('utf-8')
         h['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="%s"' % f
         # This one is triggering https://bugs.python.org/issue20747, that is Python