Merge pull request #21917 from edx/BOM-889

Updated the expected error message to make it compatible for both python versions - BOM-889

openedx/core/djangoapps/user_api/accounts/tests/test_views.py

@@ -821,6 +821,9 @@ class TestAccountsAPI(CacheIsolationTestCase, UserAPITestCase):
         Verify we handle error cases when patching the language_proficiencies
         field.
         """
+        if six.PY3:
+            expected_error_message = six.text_type(expected_error_message).replace('unicode', 'str')
+
         client = self.login_client("client", "user")
         response = self.send_patch(client, {"language_proficiencies": patch_value}, expected_status=400)
         self.assertEqual(