From 9b8867399ecf082d070b9da31301f470e09def78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexei Znamensky <103110+russoz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:42:52 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] replace batch of redundant to_native()/to_text() occurrences
 (#11105)

* replace batch of redundant to_native()/to_text() occurrences

* add changelog frag
---
 changelogs/fragments/11105-tonative-4.yml | 4 ++++
 plugins/modules/cobbler_sync.py           | 3 +--
 plugins/modules/cobbler_system.py         | 3 +--
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 changelogs/fragments/11105-tonative-4.yml

diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11105-tonative-4.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11105-tonative-4.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1bd0db9ec9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/11105-tonative-4.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - cobbler_sync - remove redundant conversions to unicode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11105).
+  - cobbler_system - remove redundant conversions to unicode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11105).
+  - ip_netns - remove redundant conversions to unicode (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11105).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/cobbler_sync.py b/plugins/modules/cobbler_sync.py
index 7e2e9a72a4..5979ece600 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/cobbler_sync.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/cobbler_sync.py
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ import ssl
 import xmlrpc.client as xmlrpc_client
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.datetime import (
     now,
@@ -120,7 +119,7 @@ def main():
     except xmlrpc_client.Fault as e:
         module.fail_json(
             msg="Failed to log in to Cobbler '{url}' as '{username}'. {error}".format(
-                url=url, error=to_text(e), **module.params
+                url=url, error=f"{e}", **module.params
             )
         )
     except Exception as e:
diff --git a/plugins/modules/cobbler_system.py b/plugins/modules/cobbler_system.py
index 3662b2ac3a..6a503ca507 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/cobbler_system.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/cobbler_system.py
@@ -151,7 +151,6 @@ import ssl
 import xmlrpc.client as xmlrpc_client
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.datetime import (
     now,
@@ -241,7 +240,7 @@ def main():
     except xmlrpc_client.Fault as e:
         module.fail_json(
             msg="Failed to log in to Cobbler '{url}' as '{username}'. {error}".format(
-                url=url, error=to_text(e), **module.params
+                url=url, error=f"{e}", **module.params
             )
         )
     except Exception as e: