Move the various compat things to the compat module.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/utils/__init__.py b/rest_framework/utils/__init__.py
index 45879353..1603f972 100644
--- a/rest_framework/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/rest_framework/utils/__init__.py
@@ -1,13 +1,7 @@
-
-import six
-
-try:
-    from django.utils.encoding import smart_text
-except ImportError:
-    from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode as smart_text
-
 from django.utils.xmlutils import SimplerXMLGenerator
 from rest_framework.compat import StringIO
+from rest_framework.compat import six
+from rest_framework.compat import smart_text
 import re
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET