Removed custom StringIO, force_text, smart_text compat

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/utils/encoders.py b/rest_framework/utils/encoders.py
index 4d6bb3a3..adc83e57 100644
--- a/rest_framework/utils/encoders.py
+++ b/rest_framework/utils/encoders.py
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ Helper classes for parsers.
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from django.db.models.query import QuerySet
 from django.utils import six, timezone
+from django.utils.encoding import force_text
 from django.utils.functional import Promise
-from rest_framework.compat import force_text, OrderedDict
+from rest_framework.compat import OrderedDict
 import datetime
 import decimal
 import types