Use ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters (#80704)

Replace use of old `ansible.module_utils._text` and add a unit test to maintain backwards compatibility.

269 files changed, 294 insertions, 271 deletions

diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/text-converters.yml b/changelogs/fragments/text-converters.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8dafc2fede
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/text-converters.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - Use ``ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters`` instead of ``ansible.module_utils._text``.
diff --git a/docs/bin/find-plugin-refs.py b/docs/bin/find-plugin-refs.py
index d603409d68..52946b2ebe 100755
--- a/docs/bin/find-plugin-refs.py
+++ b/docs/bin/find-plugin-refs.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import glob
 import os
 import re
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 
 
 TOPDIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'docsite', 'rst')
diff --git a/hacking/ansible-profile b/hacking/ansible-profile
index 8681cb739d..9856e7ab5c 100755
--- a/hacking/ansible-profile
+++ b/hacking/ansible-profile
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import sys
 import traceback
 
 import ansible.constants as C
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 
 target = sys.argv.pop(1)
 myclass = "%sCLI" % target.capitalize()
diff --git a/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/collection_meta.py b/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/collection_meta.py
index 41b1077851..5c379a1d71 100644
--- a/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/collection_meta.py
+++ b/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/collection_meta.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import pathlib
 
 import yaml
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from antsibull_docs.jinja2.environment import doc_environment
 
 # Pylint doesn't understand Python3 namespace modules.
diff --git a/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/dump_config.py b/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/dump_config.py
index 33591b4731..733f9503e9 100644
--- a/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/dump_config.py
+++ b/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/dump_config.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import pathlib
 
 import yaml
 from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 
 # Pylint doesn't understand Python3 namespace modules.
 from ..change_detection import update_file_if_different  # pylint: disable=relative-beyond-top-level
diff --git a/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/dump_keywords.py b/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/dump_keywords.py
index e9379317f9..90a790f68b 100644
--- a/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/dump_keywords.py
+++ b/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/dump_keywords.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import jinja2
 import yaml
 from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 
 # Pylint doesn't understand Python3 namespace modules.
 from ..change_detection import update_file_if_different  # pylint: disable=relative-beyond-top-level
diff --git a/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/generate_man.py b/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/generate_man.py
index e9df138725..2d8d1b0ec4 100644
--- a/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/generate_man.py
+++ b/hacking/build_library/build_ansible/command_plugins/generate_man.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import sys
 
 from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 
 # Pylint doesn't understand Python3 namespace modules.
 from ..change_detection import update_file_if_different  # pylint: disable=relative-beyond-top-level
diff --git a/hacking/test-module.py b/hacking/test-module.py
index 745acdbc7f..7a329b4b2d 100755
--- a/hacking/test-module.py
+++ b/hacking/test-module.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ from ansible.parsing.splitter import parse_kv
 from ansible.plugins.loader import init_plugin_loader
 from ansible.executor import module_common
 import ansible.constants as C
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.template import Templar
 
 import json
diff --git a/hacking/tests/gen_distribution_version_testcase.py b/hacking/tests/gen_distribution_version_testcase.py
index 2fc5a2f932..e75c78ad91 100755
--- a/hacking/tests/gen_distribution_version_testcase.py
+++ b/hacking/tests/gen_distribution_version_testcase.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import subprocess
 import sys
 
 from ansible.module_utils import distro
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 
 
 filelist = [
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/cli/__init__.py
index 5f49d6a07f..678e5d5443 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/__init__.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ from ansible.cli.arguments import option_helpers as opt_help
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError, AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.inventory.manager import InventoryManager
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_sequence
 from ansible.module_utils.common.file import is_executable
 from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/adhoc.py b/lib/ansible/cli/adhoc.py
index e90b44ce10..a54dacb70c 100755
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/adhoc.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/adhoc.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from ansible import context
 from ansible.cli.arguments import option_helpers as opt_help
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError, AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.executor.task_queue_manager import TaskQueueManager
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.parsing.splitter import parse_kv
 from ansible.parsing.utils.yaml import from_yaml
 from ansible.playbook import Playbook
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/arguments/option_helpers.py b/lib/ansible/cli/arguments/option_helpers.py
index e3f661111f..0c46fedf15 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/arguments/option_helpers.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/arguments/option_helpers.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from jinja2 import __version__ as j2_version
 
 import ansible
 from ansible import constants as C
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.yaml import HAS_LIBYAML, yaml_load
 from ansible.release import __version__
 from ansible.utils.path import unfrackpath
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/config.py b/lib/ansible/cli/config.py
index 490da3e35c..c55563b4a8 100755
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/config.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/config.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.cli.arguments import option_helpers as opt_help
 from ansible.config.manager import ConfigManager, Setting
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text, to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.common.json import json_dump
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.parsing.quoting import is_quoted
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/console.py b/lib/ansible/cli/console.py
index 3125cc47a7..18f38a4649 100755
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/console.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/console.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible import context
 from ansible.cli.arguments import option_helpers as opt_help
 from ansible.executor.task_queue_manager import TaskQueueManager
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 from ansible.parsing.splitter import parse_kv
 from ansible.playbook.play import Play
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/doc.py b/lib/ansible/cli/doc.py
index 124eadc920..06c931272b 100755
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/doc.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/doc.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from ansible import context
 from ansible.cli.arguments import option_helpers as opt_help
 from ansible.collections.list import list_collection_dirs
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError, AnsibleParserError, AnsiblePluginNotFound
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_sequence
 from ansible.module_utils.common.json import json_dump
 from ansible.module_utils.common.yaml import yaml_dump
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/galaxy.py b/lib/ansible/cli/galaxy.py
index 0deb0331a5..f7a89856cc 100755
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/galaxy.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/galaxy.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ from ansible.galaxy.token import BasicAuthToken, GalaxyToken, KeycloakToken, NoT
 from ansible.module_utils.ansible_release import __version__ as ansible_version
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_iterable
 from ansible.module_utils.common.yaml import yaml_dump, yaml_load
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils import six
 from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.loader import AnsibleLoader
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/inventory.py b/lib/ansible/cli/inventory.py
index 1a739af261..ede6288df5 100755
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/inventory.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/inventory.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible import context
 from ansible.cli.arguments import option_helpers as opt_help
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.utils.vars import combine_vars
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 from ansible.vars.plugins import get_vars_from_inventory_sources, get_vars_from_path
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/playbook.py b/lib/ansible/cli/playbook.py
index 4a75a536a9..e63785b058 100755
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/playbook.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/playbook.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from ansible import context
 from ansible.cli.arguments import option_helpers as opt_help
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.executor.playbook_executor import PlaybookExecutor
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.playbook.block import Block
 from ansible.plugins.loader import add_all_plugin_dirs
 from ansible.utils.collection_loader import AnsibleCollectionConfig
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/pull.py b/lib/ansible/cli/pull.py
index dc8f055b44..c7497b0b69 100755
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/pull.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/pull.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible import context
 from ansible.cli.arguments import option_helpers as opt_help
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleOptionsError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.loader import module_loader
 from ansible.utils.cmd_functions import run_cmd
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/scripts/ansible_connection_cli_stub.py b/lib/ansible/cli/scripts/ansible_connection_cli_stub.py
index 446f41ab21..b1ed18c9c6 100755
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/scripts/ansible_connection_cli_stub.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/scripts/ansible_connection_cli_stub.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from contextlib import contextmanager
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.cli.arguments import option_helpers as opt_help
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import Connection, ConnectionError, send_data, recv_data
 from ansible.module_utils.service import fork_process
 from ansible.parsing.ajson import AnsibleJSONEncoder, AnsibleJSONDecoder
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/vault.py b/lib/ansible/cli/vault.py
index f7fb5ee01d..d010eede9d 100755
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/vault.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/vault.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible import context
 from ansible.cli.arguments import option_helpers as opt_help
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleOptionsError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_bytes
 from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader
 from ansible.parsing.vault import VaultEditor, VaultLib, match_encrypt_secret
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/lib/ansible/collections/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/collections/__init__.py
index 6b3e2a7d80..97126c0926 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/collections/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/collections/__init__.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import os
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 
 B_FLAG_FILES = frozenset([b'MANIFEST.json', b'galaxy.yml'])
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/collections/list.py b/lib/ansible/collections/list.py
index a867af2429..4c1e5502be 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/collections/list.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/collections/list.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import os
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.cli.galaxy import with_collection_artifacts_manager
 from ansible.galaxy.collection import find_existing_collections
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.utils.collection_loader import AnsibleCollectionConfig
 from ansible.utils.collection_loader._collection_finder import _get_collection_name_from_path
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/lib/ansible/config/manager.py b/lib/ansible/config/manager.py
index bcb98047d4..45704bb903 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/config/manager.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/config/manager.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from collections.abc import Mapping, Sequence
 from jinja2.nativetypes import NativeEnvironment
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleOptionsError, AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_bytes, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_bytes, to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.yaml import yaml_load
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
diff --git a/lib/ansible/constants.py b/lib/ansible/constants.py
index 23b1cf4127..8eaadc7018 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/constants.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/constants.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import re
 from string import ascii_letters, digits
 
 from ansible.config.manager import ConfigManager
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import Sequence
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import BOOLEANS_TRUE
 from ansible.release import __version__
diff --git a/lib/ansible/errors/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/errors/__init__.py
index 833c041a37..a10be9958e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/errors/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/errors/__init__.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ from ansible.errors.yaml_strings import (
     YAML_POSITION_DETAILS,
     YAML_AND_SHORTHAND_ERROR,
 )
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 
 
 class AnsibleError(Exception):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/executor/interpreter_discovery.py b/lib/ansible/executor/interpreter_discovery.py
index bfd850410c..c95cf2ed8f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/executor/interpreter_discovery.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/executor/interpreter_discovery.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import pkgutil
 import re
 
 from ansible import constants as C
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.distro import LinuxDistribution
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 from ansible.utils.plugin_docs import get_versioned_doclink
diff --git a/lib/ansible/executor/playbook_executor.py b/lib/ansible/executor/playbook_executor.py
index 94e163c69a..1d37254bb7 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/executor/playbook_executor.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/executor/playbook_executor.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import os
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible import context
 from ansible.executor.task_queue_manager import TaskQueueManager, AnsibleEndPlay
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 from ansible.plugins.loader import become_loader, connection_loader, shell_loader
 from ansible.playbook import Playbook
diff --git a/lib/ansible/executor/powershell/module_manifest.py b/lib/ansible/executor/powershell/module_manifest.py
index 87e2ce0ad0..0720d23e97 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/executor/powershell/module_manifest.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/executor/powershell/module_manifest.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.compat.version import LooseVersion
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.compat.importlib import import_module
 from ansible.plugins.loader import ps_module_utils_loader
 from ansible.utils.collection_loader import resource_from_fqcr
diff --git a/lib/ansible/executor/process/worker.py b/lib/ansible/executor/process/worker.py
index 0c49f75357..43bd292cf5 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/executor/process/worker.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/executor/process/worker.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ from multiprocessing.queues import Queue
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleConnectionFailure, AnsibleError
 from ansible.executor.task_executor import TaskExecutor
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 from ansible.utils.multiprocessing import context as multiprocessing_context
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/executor/task_executor.py b/lib/ansible/executor/task_executor.py
index a4200c0848..a0e9c110a8 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/executor/task_executor.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/executor/task_executor.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from ansible.executor.task_result import TaskResult
 from ansible.executor.module_common import get_action_args_with_defaults
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import write_to_file_descriptor
 from ansible.playbook.conditional import Conditional
 from ansible.playbook.task import Task
diff --git a/lib/ansible/executor/task_queue_manager.py b/lib/ansible/executor/task_queue_manager.py
index feebdab427..9af431de3d 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/executor/task_queue_manager.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/executor/task_queue_manager.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ from ansible.executor.play_iterator import PlayIterator
 from ansible.executor.stats import AggregateStats
 from ansible.executor.task_result import TaskResult
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_native
 from ansible.playbook.play_context import PlayContext
 from ansible.playbook.task import Task
 from ansible.plugins.loader import callback_loader, strategy_loader, module_loader
diff --git a/lib/ansible/galaxy/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/galaxy/__init__.py
index d3b9035f9d..26d9f14365 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/galaxy/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/galaxy/__init__.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import os
 
 import ansible.constants as C
 from ansible import context
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.common.yaml import yaml_load
 
 #      default_readme_template
diff --git a/lib/ansible/galaxy/api.py b/lib/ansible/galaxy/api.py
index 0d51998044..64b3ee0ee1 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/galaxy/api.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/galaxy/api.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ from ansible.galaxy.user_agent import user_agent
 from ansible.module_utils.api import retry_with_delays_and_condition
 from ansible.module_utils.api import generate_jittered_backoff
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url, prepare_multipart
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 from ansible.utils.hashing import secure_hash_s
diff --git a/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/__init__.py
index feea9da2e2..d3315d39ac 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/__init__.py
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ from ansible.galaxy.dependency_resolution.dataclasses import (
 )
 from ansible.galaxy.dependency_resolution.versioning import meets_requirements
 from ansible.plugins.loader import get_all_plugin_loaders
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_sequence
 from ansible.module_utils.common.yaml import yaml_dump
 from ansible.utils.collection_loader import AnsibleCollectionRef
diff --git a/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/concrete_artifact_manager.py b/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/concrete_artifact_manager.py
index 4c60642770..c7302a8a30 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/concrete_artifact_manager.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/concrete_artifact_manager.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ from ansible.galaxy import get_collections_galaxy_meta_info
 from ansible.galaxy.api import should_retry_error
 from ansible.galaxy.dependency_resolution.dataclasses import _GALAXY_YAML
 from ansible.galaxy.user_agent import user_agent
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.api import retry_with_delays_and_condition
 from ansible.module_utils.api import generate_jittered_backoff
 from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
diff --git a/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/galaxy_api_proxy.py b/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/galaxy_api_proxy.py
index 51e0c9f551..64d545f7f0 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/galaxy_api_proxy.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/galaxy_api_proxy.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ if t.TYPE_CHECKING:
     )
 
 from ansible.galaxy.api import GalaxyAPI, GalaxyError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/galaxy/dependency_resolution/dataclasses.py b/lib/ansible/galaxy/dependency_resolution/dataclasses.py
index 46b4e2fffc..537f8082bb 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/galaxy/dependency_resolution/dataclasses.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/galaxy/dependency_resolution/dataclasses.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ if t.TYPE_CHECKING:
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleAssertionError
 from ansible.galaxy.api import GalaxyAPI
 from ansible.galaxy.collection import HAS_PACKAGING, PkgReq
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.arg_spec import ArgumentSpecValidator
 from ansible.utils.collection_loader import AnsibleCollectionRef
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/lib/ansible/galaxy/role.py b/lib/ansible/galaxy/role.py
index 99bb525e59..2d7927a6fa 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/galaxy/role.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/galaxy/role.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ from ansible import context
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.galaxy.api import GalaxyAPI
 from ansible.galaxy.user_agent import user_agent
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.yaml import yaml_dump, yaml_load
 from ansible.module_utils.compat.version import LooseVersion
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
diff --git a/lib/ansible/galaxy/token.py b/lib/ansible/galaxy/token.py
index 4455fd01c1..4951b4bdab 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/galaxy/token.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/galaxy/token.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ from stat import S_IRUSR, S_IWUSR
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.galaxy.user_agent import user_agent
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.yaml import yaml_dump, yaml_load
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory/group.py b/lib/ansible/inventory/group.py
index c7af685e5c..e81cca1b3d 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory/group.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory/group.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ from itertools import chain
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 from ansible.utils.vars import combine_vars
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory/manager.py b/lib/ansible/inventory/manager.py
index 400bc6b2b5..a95c9d2bbd 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory/manager.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory/manager.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError, AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.inventory.data import InventoryData
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.parsing.utils.addresses import parse_address
 from ansible.plugins.loader import inventory_loader
 from ansible.utils.helpers import deduplicate_list
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/json.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/json.py
index 4f333ecf51..33f1010424 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/json.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/json.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import json
 
 import datetime
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.collections_abc import Mapping
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_sequence
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/locale.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/locale.py
index a6068c8666..08216f59f0 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/locale.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/locale.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 __metaclass__ = type
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 
 def get_best_parsable_locale(module, preferences=None, raise_on_locale=False):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/text/converters.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/text/converters.py
index f33e76cd68..5b41315bc8 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/text/converters.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/text/converters.py
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ def to_text(obj, encoding='utf-8', errors=None, nonstring='simplerepr'):
                 handler, otherwise it will use replace.
             :surrogate_then_replace: Does the same as surrogate_or_replace but
                 `was added for symmetry with the error handlers in
-                :func:`ansible.module_utils._text.to_bytes` (Added in Ansible 2.3)
+                :func:`ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters.to_bytes` (Added in Ansible 2.3)
 
         Because surrogateescape was added in Python3 this usually means that
         Python3 will use `surrogateescape` and Python2 will use the fallback
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ def to_text(obj, encoding='utf-8', errors=None, nonstring='simplerepr'):
 
         The default until Ansible-2.2 was `surrogate_or_replace`
         In Ansible-2.3 this defaults to `surrogate_then_replace` for symmetry
-        with :func:`ansible.module_utils._text.to_bytes` .
+        with :func:`ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters.to_bytes` .
     :kwarg nonstring: The strategy to use if a nonstring is specified in
         ``obj``.  Default is 'simplerepr'.  Valid values are:
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/validation.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/validation.py
index fa494d4d61..cc5478999c 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/validation.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/common/validation.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import os
 import re
 
 from ast import literal_eval
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common._json_compat import json
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_iterable
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import jsonify
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/connection.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/connection.py
index 1396c1c151..e4e507dbb3 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/connection.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/connection.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import traceback
 import uuid
 
 from functools import partial
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.json import AnsibleJSONEncoder
 from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import cPickle
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/hardware/linux.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/hardware/linux.py
index 18453abc09..4e6305cb18 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/hardware/linux.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/hardware/linux.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import time
 from multiprocessing import cpu_count
 from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.locale import get_best_parsable_locale
 from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.formatters import bytes_to_human
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/hardware/openbsd.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/hardware/openbsd.py
index 145dcab0bf..cd5e21e961 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/hardware/openbsd.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/hardware/openbsd.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 import re
 import time
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 
 from ansible.module_utils.facts.hardware.base import Hardware, HardwareCollector
 from ansible.module_utils.facts import timeout
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/sysctl.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/sysctl.py
index 2c55d7762f..d7bcc8a105 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/sysctl.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/sysctl.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import re
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 
 
 def get_sysctl(module, prefixes):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/system/local.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/system/local.py
index bacdbe0d42..3fb75c9430 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/system/local.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/system/local.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import stat
 
 import ansible.module_utils.compat.typing as t
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.facts.utils import get_file_content
 from ansible.module_utils.facts.collector import BaseFactCollector
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import configparser, StringIO
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/system/service_mgr.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/system/service_mgr.py
index d862ac90b5..fefdccfb90 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/system/service_mgr.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts/system/service_mgr.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import re
 
 import ansible.module_utils.compat.typing as t
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 from ansible.module_utils.facts.utils import get_file_content
 from ansible.module_utils.facts.collector import BaseFactCollector
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/parsing/convert_bool.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/parsing/convert_bool.py
index 7eea875f79..fb331d89cf 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/parsing/convert_bool.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/parsing/convert_bool.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
 from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type, text_type
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 
 
 BOOLEANS_TRUE = frozenset(('y', 'yes', 'on', '1', 'true', 't', 1, 1.0, True))
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/service.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/service.py
index d2cecd49c5..f48ad290a2 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/service.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/service.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ import subprocess
 import traceback
 
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY2, b
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 
 
 def sysv_is_enabled(name, runlevel=None):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
index 051ffebec2..0e5fbb74c4 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import Mapping, is_sequence
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY2, PY3, string_types
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import cStringIO
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import get_distribution, missing_required_lib
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 
 try:
     # python3
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/apt.py b/lib/ansible/modules/apt.py
index 9c62ecd553..ad073e8681 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/apt.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/apt.py
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ import time
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.common.locale import get_best_parsable_locale
 from ansible.module_utils.common.respawn import has_respawned, probe_interpreters_for_module, respawn_module
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3, string_types
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import fetch_file
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/apt_key.py b/lib/ansible/modules/apt_key.py
index 94b969030d..cc1582c5b1 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/apt_key.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/apt_key.py
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ import os
 # FIXME: standardize into module_common
 from traceback import format_exc
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.common.locale import get_best_parsable_locale
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import fetch_url
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/apt_repository.py b/lib/ansible/modules/apt_repository.py
index cbd837417e..5179be91f4 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/apt_repository.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/apt_repository.py
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ import time
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.common.respawn import has_respawned, probe_interpreters_for_module, respawn_module
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import fetch_url
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/assemble.py b/lib/ansible/modules/assemble.py
index 2b443ce855..e046c1129c 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/assemble.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/assemble.py
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ import tempfile
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.six import b, indexbytes
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 
 def assemble_from_fragments(src_path, delimiter=None, compiled_regexp=None, ignore_hidden=False, tmpdir=None):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/async_status.py b/lib/ansible/modules/async_status.py
index 3609c46078..b133b97a7d 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/async_status.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/async_status.py
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ import os
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 
 def main():
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/async_wrapper.py b/lib/ansible/modules/async_wrapper.py
index 4b1a5b3232..b585396e45 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/async_wrapper.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/async_wrapper.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import time
 import syslog
 import multiprocessing
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_bytes
 
 PY3 = sys.version_info[0] == 3
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/blockinfile.py b/lib/ansible/modules/blockinfile.py
index 63fc021454..7013de97e7 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/blockinfile.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/blockinfile.py
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ import os
 import tempfile
 from ansible.module_utils.six import b
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native
 
 
 def write_changes(module, contents, path):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/command.py b/lib/ansible/modules/command.py
index a8d6bf4ebe..8150ab8792 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/command.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/command.py
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ import os
 import shlex
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_iterable
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/copy.py b/lib/ansible/modules/copy.py
index 3517c102c5..26af21c309 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/copy.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/copy.py
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ import stat
 import tempfile
 import traceback
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
 from ansible.module_utils.common.locale import get_best_parsable_locale
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/debconf.py b/lib/ansible/modules/debconf.py
index 32f0000c37..1eb5e3f248 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/debconf.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/debconf.py
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ EXAMPLES = r'''
 
 RETURN = r'''#'''
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/dnf.py b/lib/ansible/modules/dnf.py
index 771d85cde4..3bfca3cd71 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/dnf.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/dnf.py
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ import os
 import re
 import sys
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import fetch_file
 from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type
 from ansible.module_utils.compat.version import LooseVersion
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/expect.py b/lib/ansible/modules/expect.py
index 9ca799dac7..c9aac71ac5 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/expect.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/expect.py
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ except ImportError:
     HAS_PEXPECT = False
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule, missing_required_lib
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native
 
 
 def response_closure(module, question, responses):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/file.py b/lib/ansible/modules/file.py
index 72b510c3ca..0c9c3d9504 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/file.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/file.py
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ from pwd import getpwnam, getpwuid
 from grp import getgrnam, getgrgid
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native
 
 
 # There will only be a single AnsibleModule object per module
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/find.py b/lib/ansible/modules/find.py
index b13c841cc2..0014a19093 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/find.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/find.py
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ import re
 import stat
 import time
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/get_url.py b/lib/ansible/modules/get_url.py
index 2d85d4da36..817bca0ae2 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/get_url.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/get_url.py
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ import traceback
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlsplit
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import fetch_url, url_argument_spec
 
 # ==============================================================
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/getent.py b/lib/ansible/modules/getent.py
index e823e58eba..ce89f80ef2 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/getent.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/getent.py
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ ansible_facts:
 import traceback
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 
 def main():
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/git.py b/lib/ansible/modules/git.py
index 2ea64fb3a1..7df80cfa5e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/git.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/git.py
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ import shutil
 import tempfile
 from ansible.module_utils.compat.version import LooseVersion
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.common.locale import get_best_parsable_locale
 from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/group.py b/lib/ansible/modules/group.py
index 4444f158b4..4119d4a06f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/group.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/group.py
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ system:
 import grp
 import os
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.common.sys_info import get_platform_subclass
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/hostname.py b/lib/ansible/modules/hostname.py
index f63c16a01d..4a1c7ead66 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/hostname.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/hostname.py
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.basic import (
 from ansible.module_utils.common.sys_info import get_platform_subclass
 from ansible.module_utils.facts.system.service_mgr import ServiceMgrFactCollector
 from ansible.module_utils.facts.utils import get_file_lines, get_file_content
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3, text_type
 
 STRATS = {
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/known_hosts.py b/lib/ansible/modules/known_hosts.py
index b0c888807c..e1ac5d366a 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/known_hosts.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/known_hosts.py
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ import re
 import tempfile
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native
 
 
 def enforce_state(module, params):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/lineinfile.py b/lib/ansible/modules/lineinfile.py
index 0e1b76f5cb..0c3a397ba4 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/lineinfile.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/lineinfile.py
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ import tempfile
 
 # import module snippets
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 
 
 def write_changes(module, b_lines, dest):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/package_facts.py b/lib/ansible/modules/package_facts.py
index ea3c699965..b5056f09e1 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/package_facts.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/package_facts.py
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ ansible_facts:
 
 import re
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule, missing_required_lib
 from ansible.module_utils.common.locale import get_best_parsable_locale
 from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/pip.py b/lib/ansible/modules/pip.py
index a77d2fdabd..c39f7baca0 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/pip.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/pip.py
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ except ImportError:
     HAS_SETUPTOOLS = False
     SETUPTOOLS_IMP_ERR = traceback.format_exc()
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule, is_executable, missing_required_lib
 from ansible.module_utils.common.locale import get_best_parsable_locale
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/replace.py b/lib/ansible/modules/replace.py
index d8b192663d..c374783381 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/replace.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/replace.py
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ import re
 import tempfile
 from traceback import format_exc
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/rpm_key.py b/lib/ansible/modules/rpm_key.py
index f420eec561..2586076a77 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/rpm_key.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/rpm_key.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ import tempfile
 # import module snippets
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import fetch_url
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 
 def is_pubkey(string):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/service.py b/lib/ansible/modules/service.py
index 49294c17fd..81d2299c7b 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/service.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/service.py
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ import time
 if platform.system() != 'SunOS':
     from ansible.module_utils.compat.version import LooseVersion
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.common.locale import get_best_parsable_locale
 from ansible.module_utils.common.sys_info import get_platform_subclass
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/setup.py b/lib/ansible/modules/setup.py
index df2a67f236..ac139a94ca 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/setup.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/setup.py
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ EXAMPLES = r"""
 # import module snippets
 from ..module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.facts import ansible_collector, default_collectors
 from ansible.module_utils.facts.collector import CollectorNotFoundError, CycleFoundInFactDeps, UnresolvedFactDep
 from ansible.module_utils.facts.namespace import PrefixFactNamespace
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/stat.py b/lib/ansible/modules/stat.py
index 45ca78b2a7..221d08bae2 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/stat.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/stat.py
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ import stat
 
 # import module snippets
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 
 
 def format_output(module, path, st):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/systemd_service.py b/lib/ansible/modules/systemd_service.py
index d142f865b5..866186f1be 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/systemd_service.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/systemd_service.py
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ import os
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.facts.system.chroot import is_chroot
 from ansible.module_utils.service import sysv_exists, sysv_is_enabled, fail_if_missing
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 
 def is_running_service(service_status):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/tempfile.py b/lib/ansible/modules/tempfile.py
index 10594dec0d..60ee4b4b56 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/tempfile.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/tempfile.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ from tempfile import mkstemp, mkdtemp
 from traceback import format_exc
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 
 def main():
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/unarchive.py b/lib/ansible/modules/unarchive.py
index bb081ffbb1..3bb6b834cf 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/unarchive.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/unarchive.py
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ import traceback
 from functools import partial
 from zipfile import ZipFile
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
 from ansible.module_utils.common.locale import get_best_parsable_locale
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py b/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py
index 03ba66fa87..2764e74554 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ import tempfile
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule, sanitize_keys
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY2, PY3, binary_type, iteritems, string_types
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode, urlsplit
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.collections_abc import Mapping, Sequence
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import fetch_url, get_response_filename, parse_content_type, prepare_multipart, url_argument_spec
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/user.py b/lib/ansible/modules/user.py
index 0c26cc28bd..dc2a2f6de5 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/user.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/user.py
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ import time
 import math
 
 from ansible.module_utils import distro
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.common.locale import get_best_parsable_locale
 from ansible.module_utils.common.sys_info import get_platform_subclass
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/wait_for.py b/lib/ansible/modules/wait_for.py
index 66666bde66..2abdb1d597 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/wait_for.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/wait_for.py
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ import traceback
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule, missing_required_lib
 from ansible.module_utils.common.sys_info import get_platform_subclass
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 
 
 HAS_PSUTIL = False
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/yum.py b/lib/ansible/modules/yum.py
index 0f8982b47a..ed54fd700f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/yum.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/yum.py
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.common.locale import get_best_parsable_locale
 from ansible.module_utils.common.respawn import has_respawned, respawn_module
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.yumdnf import YumDnf, yumdnf_argument_spec
 
 import errno
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/yum_repository.py b/lib/ansible/modules/yum_repository.py
index 84a10b9220..08858e3452 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/yum_repository.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/yum_repository.py
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ import os
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import configparser
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 
 class YumRepo(object):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/dataloader.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/dataloader.py
index cbba9668bb..ad0b77316a 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/dataloader.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/dataloader.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFileNotFound, AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import is_executable
 from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type, text_type
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.parsing.quoting import unquote
 from ansible.parsing.utils.yaml import from_yaml
 from ansible.parsing.vault import VaultLib, b_HEADER, is_encrypted, is_encrypted_file, parse_vaulttext_envelope
diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/mod_args.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/mod_args.py
index aeb58b06dd..ebdca498a8 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/mod_args.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/mod_args.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 import ansible.constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError, AnsibleError, AnsibleAssertionError
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.parsing.splitter import parse_kv, split_args
 from ansible.plugins.loader import module_loader, action_loader
 from ansible.template import Templar
diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/plugin_docs.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/plugin_docs.py
index f21b2ebc87..7d3dca015c 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/plugin_docs.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/plugin_docs.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import tokenize
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_native
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.loader import AnsibleLoader
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py
index b68444fef7..b1fb7bc5dc 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import codecs
 import re
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.parsing.quoting import unquote
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/utils/yaml.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/utils/yaml.py
index 91e37f95b8..d67b91f590 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/utils/yaml.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/utils/yaml.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from yaml import YAMLError
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.errors.yaml_strings import YAML_SYNTAX_ERROR
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.loader import AnsibleLoader
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.objects import AnsibleBaseYAMLObject
 from ansible.parsing.ajson import AnsibleJSONDecoder
diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py
index 5d7efeb08d..3006713c11 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ except ImportError:
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleAssertionError
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text, to_native
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 from ansible.utils.path import makedirs_safe, unfrackpath
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/constructor.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/constructor.py
index 4b7957870d..e97c02dd88 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/constructor.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/constructor.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from yaml.constructor import SafeConstructor, ConstructorError
 from yaml.nodes import MappingNode
 
 from ansible import constants as C
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.objects import AnsibleMapping, AnsibleSequence, AnsibleUnicode, AnsibleVaultEncryptedUnicode
 from ansible.parsing.vault import VaultLib
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/objects.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/objects.py
index 40df65fa42..118f2f358d 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/objects.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/yaml/objects.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import sys as _sys
 from collections.abc import Sequence
 
 from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text, to_native
 
 
 class AnsibleBaseYAMLObject(object):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py
index 0ab2271920..52b2ee7f36 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import os
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_native
 from ansible.playbook.play import Play
 from ansible.playbook.playbook_include import PlaybookInclude
 from ansible.plugins.loader import add_all_plugin_dirs
diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/base.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/base.py
index 94f8a155d4..c7d13b2da6 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/base.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/base.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from ansible import context
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError, AnsibleUndefinedVariable, AnsibleAssertionError
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_native
 from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader
 from ansible.playbook.attribute import Attribute, FieldAttribute, ConnectionFieldAttribute, NonInheritableFieldAttribute
 from ansible.plugins.loader import module_loader, action_loader
diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/conditional.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/conditional.py
index 834725bf83..6b685ef6a8 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/conditional.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/conditional.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from jinja2.exceptions import UndefinedError
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleUndefinedVariable
 from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.playbook.attribute import FieldAttribute
 from ansible.template import Templar
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/helpers.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/helpers.py
index 46fe46a111..1c44448a5f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/helpers.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/helpers.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import os
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError, AnsibleUndefinedVariable, AnsibleAssertionError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.parsing.mod_args import ModuleArgsParser
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/included_file.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/included_file.py
index b833077c95..c1e815b1ad 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/included_file.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/included_file.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import os
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.executor.task_executor import remove_omit
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.playbook.handler import Handler
 from ansible.playbook.task_include import TaskInclude
 from ansible.playbook.role_include import IncludeRole
diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/play.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/play.py
index e0f8b639a6..6449859659 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/play.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/play.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible import context
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError, AnsibleAssertionError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_sequence
 from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type, string_types, text_type
 from ansible.playbook.attribute import NonInheritableFieldAttribute
diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/playbook_include.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/playbook_include.py
index f0b792e067..02837dde74 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/playbook_include.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/playbook_include.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import os
 
 import ansible.constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError, AnsibleAssertionError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.parsing.splitter import split_args
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.objects import AnsibleBaseYAMLObject, AnsibleMapping
diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/role/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/role/__init__.py
index b35519e4ca..31e6309729 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/role/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/role/__init__.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from types import MappingProxyType
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError, AnsibleAssertionError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type, text_type
 from ansible.playbook.attribute import FieldAttribute
 from ansible.playbook.base import Base
diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/role/include.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/role/include.py
index 91f405162a..f4b3e40291 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/role/include.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/role/include.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.objects import AnsibleBaseYAMLObject
 from ansible.playbook.delegatable import Delegatable
 from ansible.playbook.role.definition import RoleDefinition
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 
 __all__ = ['RoleInclude']
diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/role/metadata.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/role/metadata.py
index 8366a630a2..e299122e9a 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/role/metadata.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/role/metadata.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 import os
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError, AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.playbook.attribute import NonInheritableFieldAttribute
 from ansible.playbook.base import Base
diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/task.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/task.py
index ee04a54f52..599abf2b9d 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/task.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/task.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError, AnsibleUndefinedVariable, AnsibleAssertionError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.parsing.mod_args import ModuleArgsParser
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.objects import AnsibleBaseYAMLObject, AnsibleMapping
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py
index 4d1f3b149a..63988e80d3 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import typing as t
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
index a2d14e3320..35a5b125b3 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.common.arg_spec import ArgumentSpecValidator
 from ansible.module_utils.errors import UnsupportedError
 from ansible.module_utils.json_utils import _filter_non_json_lines
 from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type, string_types, text_type
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.parsing.utils.jsonify import jsonify
 from ansible.release import __version__
 from ansible.utils.collection_loader import resource_from_fqcr
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/assemble.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/assemble.py
index 06fa2df32f..da794edd27 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/assemble.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/assemble.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import tempfile
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleAction, _AnsibleActionDone, AnsibleActionFail
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.utils.hashing import checksum_s
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/copy.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/copy.py
index cb3d15b383..9180d1254c 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/copy.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/copy.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import traceback
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleFileNotFound
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import FILE_COMMON_ARGUMENTS
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.utils.hashing import checksum
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/debug.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/debug.py
index 0764a5ab57..30fe2a4dce 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/debug.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/debug.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleUndefinedVariable
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/include_vars.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/include_vars.py
index 7418ace625..382e7b079a 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/include_vars.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/include_vars.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import re
 import ansible.constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.utils.vars import combine_vars
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/pause.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/pause.py
index 2d7e574266..d306fbfa82 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/pause.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/pause.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import datetime
 import time
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsiblePromptInterrupt, AnsiblePromptNoninteractive
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/reboot.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/reboot.py
index 40447d1990..f4727a2916 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/reboot.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/reboot.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import time
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_type_list, check_type_str
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/script.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/script.py
index 1bbb800118..8008a4e703 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/script.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/script.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import shlex
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleAction, _AnsibleActionDone, AnsibleActionFail, AnsibleActionSkip
 from ansible.executor.powershell import module_manifest as ps_manifest
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/template.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/template.py
index d2b3df9ab7..426c53f03f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/template.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/template.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import tempfile
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.config.manager import ensure_type
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleFileNotFound, AnsibleAction, AnsibleActionFail
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text, to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/unarchive.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/unarchive.py
index 4d188e3d34..9bce1227e0 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/unarchive.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/unarchive.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 import os
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleAction, AnsibleActionFail, AnsibleActionSkip
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/uri.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/uri.py
index e6f99d0ef8..ffd1c89a24 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/uri.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/uri.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 import os
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleAction, _AnsibleActionDone, AnsibleActionFail
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import Mapping, MutableMapping
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/wait_for_connection.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/wait_for_connection.py
index 8489c76721..c0e0a076f5 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/wait_for_connection.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/wait_for_connection.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 import time
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/become/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/become/__init__.py
index 9dacf2257a..0e4a411836 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/become/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/become/__init__.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from string import ascii_lowercase
 from gettext import dgettext
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.plugins import AnsiblePlugin
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/become/su.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/become/su.py
index 3a6fdea23b..7fa54135b7 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/become/su.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/become/su.py
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = """
 import re
 import shlex
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.plugins.become import BecomeBase
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/cache/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/cache/__init__.py
index 3fb0d9b011..f3abcb70a2 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/cache/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/cache/__init__.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ from collections.abc import MutableMapping
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.plugins import AnsiblePlugin
 from ansible.plugins.loader import cache_loader
 from ansible.utils.collection_loader import resource_from_fqcr
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/junit.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/junit.py
index 75cdbc74f6..92158ef221 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/junit.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/junit.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ import time
 import re
 
 from ansible import constants as C
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase
 from ansible.utils._junit_xml import (
     TestCase,
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/tree.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/tree.py
index a9f65d2605..52a5feeaae 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/tree.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/tree.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
 import os
 
 from ansible.constants import TREE_DIR
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase
 from ansible.utils.path import makedirs_safe, unfrackpath
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/cliconf/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/cliconf/__init__.py
index a79bcae04c..312e9c6d18 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/cliconf/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/cliconf/__init__.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from functools import wraps
 
 from ansible.plugins import AnsiblePlugin
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 
 try:
     from scp import SCPClient
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/__init__.py
index 8b3b15232d..a1df83c541 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/__init__.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from abc import abstractmethod
 from functools import wraps
 
 from ansible import constants as C
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.plugins import AnsiblePlugin
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 from ansible.plugins.loader import connection_loader, get_shell_plugin
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/local.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/local.py
index 27afd105c8..0c769a4b28 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/local.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/local.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ import ansible.constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleFileNotFound
 from ansible.module_utils.compat import selectors
 from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type, binary_type
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 from ansible.utils.path import unfrackpath
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py
index 495d8a817e..0e344dce02 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.compat.paramiko import PARAMIKO_IMPORT_ERR, paramiko
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 from ansible.utils.path import makedirs_safe
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 
 display = Display()
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py
index dfcf0e5488..fb9b529145 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleConnectionFailure, AnsibleError
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFileNotFound
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase
 from ansible.plugins.shell.powershell import _common_args
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/ssh.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/ssh.py
index e4d96289c3..cb45755be7 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/ssh.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/ssh.py
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ from ansible.errors import (
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleOptionsError
 from ansible.module_utils.compat import selectors
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3, text_type, binary_type
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import BOOLEANS, boolean
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase, BUFSIZE
 from ansible.plugins.shell.powershell import _parse_clixml
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py
index a8a2ed658d..2b79dcea81 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFileNotFound
 from ansible.module_utils.json_utils import _filter_non_json_lines
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase
 from ansible.plugins.shell.powershell import _parse_clixml
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/core.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/core.py
index 671f9f5042..98a2a03142 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/core.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/core.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from jinja2.filters import pass_environment
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleFilterError, AnsibleFilterTypeError
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types, integer_types, reraise, text_type
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_sequence
 from ansible.module_utils.common.yaml import yaml_load, yaml_load_all
 from ansible.parsing.ajson import AnsibleJSONEncoder
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/encryption.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/encryption.py
index b6f4961f70..e9664ba110 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/encryption.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/encryption.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from jinja2.runtime import Undefined
 from jinja2.exceptions import UndefinedError
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError, AnsibleFilterTypeError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types, binary_type
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.objects import AnsibleVaultEncryptedUnicode
 from ansible.parsing.vault import is_encrypted, VaultSecret, VaultLib
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/mathstuff.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/mathstuff.py
index d4b6af7118..c58ff414bf 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/mathstuff.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/filter/mathstuff.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ from jinja2.filters import pass_environment
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError, AnsibleFilterTypeError
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text import formatters
 from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type, text_type
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
 try:
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/__init__.py
index c0b426456e..a68f596695 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/__init__.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ from ansible.inventory.group import to_safe_group_name as original_safe
 from ansible.parsing.utils.addresses import parse_address
 from ansible.plugins import AnsiblePlugin
 from ansible.plugins.cache import CachePluginAdjudicator as CacheObject
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.template import Templar
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/advanced_host_list.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/advanced_host_list.py
index 1b5d8684b8..3c5f52c7c0 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/advanced_host_list.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/advanced_host_list.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
 import os
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/constructed.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/constructed.py
index dd630c66cd..b6b70a0f1b 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/constructed.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/constructed.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError, AnsibleOptionsError
 from ansible.inventory.helpers import get_group_vars
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.utils.vars import combine_vars
 from ansible.vars.fact_cache import FactCache
 from ansible.vars.plugins import get_vars_from_inventory_sources
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/host_list.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/host_list.py
index eee851653e..d0b2dadcfb 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/host_list.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/host_list.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ EXAMPLES = r'''
 import os
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.parsing.utils.addresses import parse_address
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/ini.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/ini.py
index b9955cdf77..e1c144e43e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/ini.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/ini.py
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ from ansible.inventory.group import to_safe_group_name
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseFileInventoryPlugin
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.utils.shlex import shlex_split
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py
index 4ffd8e1a45..0d03476f54 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/script.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ from collections.abc import Mapping
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import json_dict_bytes_to_unicode
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/toml.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/toml.py
index f68b34ac08..1c2b4393f2 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/toml.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/toml.py
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ from collections.abc import MutableMapping, MutableSequence
 from functools import partial
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFileNotFound, AnsibleParserError, AnsibleRuntimeError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types, text_type
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.objects import AnsibleSequence, AnsibleUnicode
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseFileInventoryPlugin
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py
index 9d5812f68a..79af3dc665 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ from collections.abc import MutableMapping
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseFileInventoryPlugin
 
 NoneType = type(None)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/list.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/list.py
index 1e0433d391..bd05b1a003 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/list.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/list.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from ansible import context
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.collections.list import list_collections
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_bytes
 from ansible.plugins import loader
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 from ansible.utils.collection_loader._collection_finder import _get_collection_path
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/loader.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/loader.py
index eb61ec31fe..37ade49904 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/loader.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/loader.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import ansible.module_utils.compat.typing as t
 from ansible import __version__ as ansible_version
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsiblePluginCircularRedirect, AnsiblePluginRemovedError, AnsibleCollectionUnsupportedVersionError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text, to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.compat.importlib import import_module
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.parsing.utils.yaml import from_yaml
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/__init__.py
index 470f060564..21fab8c7f6 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/__init__.py
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class LookupBase(AnsiblePlugin):
         must be converted into python's unicode type as the strings will be run
         through jinja2 which has this requirement.  You can use::
 
-            from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+            from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
             result_string = to_text(result_string)
         """
         pass
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/config.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/config.py
index 3e5529bcf4..b31572e6b5 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/config.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/config.py
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ import ansible.plugins.loader as plugin_loader
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleLookupError, AnsibleOptionsError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 from ansible.utils.sentinel import Sentinel
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/csvfile.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/csvfile.py
index 5932d77c37..5035da7911 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/csvfile.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/csvfile.py
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleAssertionError
 from ansible.parsing.splitter import parse_kv
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY2
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 
 
 class CSVRecoder:
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/file.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/file.py
index b4b883fe25..aee624a590 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/file.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/file.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ RETURN = """
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError, AnsibleLookupError
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
 display = Display()
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/fileglob.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/fileglob.py
index 1b068fbe6a..34eabf7952 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/fileglob.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/fileglob.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ import os
 import glob
 
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 
 
 class LookupModule(LookupBase):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/ini.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/ini.py
index eea8634cd0..9afd27290a 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/ini.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/ini.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ from collections import defaultdict
 from collections.abc import MutableSequence
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleLookupError, AnsibleOptionsError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_native
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/lines.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/lines.py
index 7676d019b2..e3f141ce43 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/lines.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/lines.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ RETURN = """
 import subprocess
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 
 
 class LookupModule(LookupBase):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/password.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/password.py
index e38d9c43cf..f3e0f79d6f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/password.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/password.py
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ import time
 import hashlib
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleAssertionError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.parsing.splitter import parse_kv
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/random_choice.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/random_choice.py
index 9f8a6aec68..76c102fe72 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/random_choice.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/random_choice.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ RETURN = """
 import random
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/template.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/template.py
index ec47624c15..e73515fd51 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/template.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/template.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ import ansible.constants as C
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.template import generate_ansible_template_vars, AnsibleEnvironment
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 from ansible.utils.native_jinja import NativeJinjaText
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/unvault.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/unvault.py
index a9b7168195..fc57e411f4 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/unvault.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/unvault.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ RETURN = """
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
 display = Display()
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/url.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/url.py
index 6790e1cedb..4bbc32616f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/url.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/url.py
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ RETURN = """
 from urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url, ConnectionError, SSLValidationError
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/varnames.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/varnames.py
index 442b81b2e8..4fd0153c14 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/varnames.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/varnames.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ _value:
 import re
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/netconf/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/netconf/__init__.py
index e99efbdf1f..1344d63791 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/netconf/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/netconf/__init__.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from functools import wraps
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.plugins import AnsiblePlugin
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import missing_required_lib
 
 try:
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ class NetconfBase(AnsiblePlugin):
         :class:`TerminalBase` plugins are byte strings.  This is because of
         how close to the underlying platform these plugins operate.  Remember
         to mark literal strings as byte string (``b"string"``) and to use
-        :func:`~ansible.module_utils._text.to_bytes` and
-        :func:`~ansible.module_utils._text.to_text` to avoid unexpected
+        :func:`~ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters.to_bytes` and
+        :func:`~ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters.to_text` to avoid unexpected
         problems.
 
         List of supported rpc's:
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/shell/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/shell/__init__.py
index ee6cc958b4..c9f8addabd 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/shell/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/shell/__init__.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import time
 from collections.abc import Mapping, Sequence
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type, string_types
 from ansible.plugins import AnsiblePlugin
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/shell/powershell.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/shell/powershell.py
index de5e7051ea..f2e78cbe2e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/shell/powershell.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/shell/powershell.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import pkgutil
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 import ntpath
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.shell import ShellBase
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/__init__.py
index 1ace575bd5..edab7aed0b 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/__init__.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ from ansible.executor.process.worker import WorkerProcess
 from ansible.executor.task_result import TaskResult
 from ansible.executor.task_queue_manager import CallbackSend, DisplaySend, PromptSend
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import Connection, ConnectionError
 from ansible.playbook.conditional import Conditional
 from ansible.playbook.handler import Handler
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/free.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/free.py
index 6d1aa651d8..fe6ad7df46 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/free.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/free.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ from ansible.playbook.included_file import IncludedFile
 from ansible.plugins.loader import action_loader
 from ansible.plugins.strategy import StrategyBase
 from ansible.template import Templar
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
 display = Display()
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/linear.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/linear.py
index 6a76fe57f2..70cbea0f88 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/linear.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/linear.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleAssertionError, AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.executor.play_iterator import IteratingStates, FailedStates
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.playbook.handler import Handler
 from ansible.playbook.included_file import IncludedFile
 from ansible.playbook.task import Task
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/terminal/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/terminal/__init__.py
index d464b07018..2a280a91f8 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/terminal/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/terminal/__init__.py
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ class TerminalBase(ABC):
         :class:`TerminalBase` plugins are byte strings.  This is because of
         how close to the underlying platform these plugins operate.  Remember
         to mark literal strings as byte string (``b"string"``) and to use
-        :func:`~ansible.module_utils._text.to_bytes` and
-        :func:`~ansible.module_utils._text.to_text` to avoid unexpected
+        :func:`~ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters.to_bytes` and
+        :func:`~ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters.to_text` to avoid unexpected
         problems.
     '''
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/test/core.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/test/core.py
index d9e7e8b61d..498db0e00e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/test/core.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/test/core.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from collections.abc import MutableMapping, MutableSequence
 from ansible.module_utils.compat.version import LooseVersion, StrictVersion
 
 from ansible import errors
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 from ansible.utils.version import SemanticVersion
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/vars/host_group_vars.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/vars/host_group_vars.py
index 26b15fdaaf..acb1a4afe0 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/vars/host_group_vars.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/vars/host_group_vars.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
 
 import os
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.vars import BaseVarsPlugin
 from ansible.inventory.host import Host
 from ansible.inventory.group import Group
diff --git a/lib/ansible/template/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/template/__init__.py
index c265b7fc30..dd5bd90ac6 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/template/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/template/__init__.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ from ansible.errors import (
     AnsibleUndefinedVariable,
 )
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text, to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_sequence
 from ansible.plugins.loader import filter_loader, lookup_loader, test_loader
 from ansible.template.native_helpers import ansible_native_concat, ansible_eval_concat, ansible_concat
diff --git a/lib/ansible/template/native_helpers.py b/lib/ansible/template/native_helpers.py
index 3014c74507..9f319fe4c4 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/template/native_helpers.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/template/native_helpers.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import ast
 from itertools import islice, chain
 from types import GeneratorType
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.objects import AnsibleVaultEncryptedUnicode
 from ansible.utils.native_jinja import NativeJinjaText
diff --git a/lib/ansible/template/vars.py b/lib/ansible/template/vars.py
index a7a9402ce8..6f40827996 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/template/vars.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/template/vars.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from collections import ChainMap
 from jinja2.utils import missing
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleUndefinedVariable
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 
 __all__ = ['AnsibleJ2Vars']
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/cmd_functions.py b/lib/ansible/utils/cmd_functions.py
index d4edb2f45f..436d955b31 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/cmd_functions.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/cmd_functions.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import shlex
 import subprocess
 import sys
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 
 
 def run_cmd(cmd, live=False, readsize=10):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/display.py b/lib/ansible/utils/display.py
index 7f059a16a6..2311120897 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/display.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/display.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ from struct import unpack, pack
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleAssertionError, AnsiblePromptInterrupt, AnsiblePromptNoninteractive
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type
 from ansible.utils.color import stringc
 from ansible.utils.multiprocessing import context as multiprocessing_context
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/encrypt.py b/lib/ansible/utils/encrypt.py
index 661fde3407..04ae8dff91 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/encrypt.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/encrypt.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from collections import namedtuple
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleAssertionError
 from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_bytes
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
 PASSLIB_E = CRYPT_E = None
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/hashing.py b/lib/ansible/utils/hashing.py
index 71300d6192..97ea1dc13c 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/hashing.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/hashing.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ except ImportError:
     _md5 = None
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 
 
 def secure_hash_s(data, hash_func=sha1):
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/jsonrpc.py b/lib/ansible/utils/jsonrpc.py
index 8d5b0f6c9e..2af8bd3581 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/jsonrpc.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/jsonrpc.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import json
 import pickle
 import traceback
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import ConnectionError
 from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type, text_type
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/path.py b/lib/ansible/utils/path.py
index f876addf1a..e4e00ce76f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/path.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/path.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import shutil
 
 from errno import EEXIST
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 
 
 __all__ = ['unfrackpath', 'makedirs_safe']
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/plugin_docs.py b/lib/ansible/utils/plugin_docs.py
index 3af26789b3..91b37228a8 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/plugin_docs.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/plugin_docs.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.release import __version__ as ansible_version
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError, AnsiblePluginNotFound
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.parsing.plugin_docs import read_docstring
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.loader import AnsibleLoader
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/py3compat.py b/lib/ansible/utils/py3compat.py
index 88d9fdff50..52011322ad 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/py3compat.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/py3compat.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import sys
 from collections.abc import MutableMapping
 
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 
 __all__ = ('environ',)
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/shlex.py b/lib/ansible/utils/shlex.py
index 5e82021bd5..db78d3d5f7 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/shlex.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/shlex.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import shlex
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 
 
 if PY3:
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/ssh_functions.py b/lib/ansible/utils/ssh_functions.py
index a728889ad8..e1b6566851 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/ssh_functions.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/ssh_functions.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 import subprocess
 
 from ansible import constants as C
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.compat.paramiko import paramiko
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/unicode.py b/lib/ansible/utils/unicode.py
index 1218a6e706..b5304ba8a1 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/unicode.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/unicode.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 
 
 __all__ = ('unicode_wrap',)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/unsafe_proxy.py b/lib/ansible/utils/unsafe_proxy.py
index d7c07730ef..b0443a6dfe 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/unsafe_proxy.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/unsafe_proxy.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 from collections.abc import Mapping, Set
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_sequence
 from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type, text_type
 from ansible.utils.native_jinja import NativeJinjaText
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/vars.py b/lib/ansible/utils/vars.py
index 5a1e729cc2..889f5943ae 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/vars.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/vars.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible import context
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types, PY3
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.parsing.splitter import parse_kv
 
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/vars/manager.py b/lib/ansible/vars/manager.py
index e285765907..93a1b9ad38 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/vars/manager.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/vars/manager.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError, AnsibleUndefinedVariable, AnsibleFileNotFound, AnsibleAssertionError, AnsibleTemplateError
 from ansible.inventory.host import Host
 from ansible.inventory.helpers import sort_groups, get_group_vars
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type, string_types
 from ansible.plugins.loader import lookup_loader
 from ansible.vars.fact_cache import FactCache
diff --git a/lib/ansible/vars/plugins.py b/lib/ansible/vars/plugins.py
index 303052b3ec..9049ebb536 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/vars/plugins.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/vars/plugins.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import os
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.inventory.host import Host
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.plugins.loader import vars_loader
 from ansible.utils.collection_loader import AnsibleCollectionRef
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/ansible-galaxy-collection/library/setup_collections.py b/test/integration/targets/ansible-galaxy-collection/library/setup_collections.py
index 35b18dec87..98ee1d582b 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/ansible-galaxy-collection/library/setup_collections.py
+++ b/test/integration/targets/ansible-galaxy-collection/library/setup_collections.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ import tempfile
 import yaml
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from functools import partial
 from multiprocessing import dummy as threading
 from multiprocessing import TimeoutError
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/ansible-inventory/filter_plugins/toml.py b/test/integration/targets/ansible-inventory/filter_plugins/toml.py
index ce8686c637..997173c49f 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/ansible-inventory/filter_plugins/toml.py
+++ b/test/integration/targets/ansible-inventory/filter_plugins/toml.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ except ImportError:
     pass
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import MutableMapping
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/collections/collection_root_user/ansible_collections/testns/testcoll/plugins/connection/localconn.py b/test/integration/targets/collections/collection_root_user/ansible_collections/testns/testcoll/plugins/connection/localconn.py
index fc19a99db7..77f80502bd 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/collections/collection_root_user/ansible_collections/testns/testcoll/plugins/connection/localconn.py
+++ b/test/integration/targets/collections/collection_root_user/ansible_collections/testns/testcoll/plugins/connection/localconn.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase
 
 DOCUMENTATION = """
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/inventory/inventory_plugins/contructed_with_hostvars.py b/test/integration/targets/inventory/inventory_plugins/contructed_with_hostvars.py
index 7ca445a31c..43cad4fcf1 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/inventory/inventory_plugins/contructed_with_hostvars.py
+++ b/test/integration/targets/inventory/inventory_plugins/contructed_with_hostvars.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = '''
 '''
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable
 
 
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/module_defaults/action_plugins/debug.py b/test/integration/targets/module_defaults/action_plugins/debug.py
index 2584fd3d5e..0c43201c75 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/module_defaults/action_plugins/debug.py
+++ b/test/integration/targets/module_defaults/action_plugins/debug.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleUndefinedVariable
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 
 
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/rel_plugin_loading/subdir/inventory_plugins/notyaml.py b/test/integration/targets/rel_plugin_loading/subdir/inventory_plugins/notyaml.py
index e542913d39..41a76d9b13 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/rel_plugin_loading/subdir/inventory_plugins/notyaml.py
+++ b/test/integration/targets/rel_plugin_loading/subdir/inventory_plugins/notyaml.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ from collections.abc import MutableMapping
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseFileInventoryPlugin
 
 NoneType = type(None)
diff --git a/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/module_args.py b/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/module_args.py
index 03a1401927..1b7121713b 100644
--- a/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/module_args.py
+++ b/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/module_args.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ from contextlib import contextmanager
 from ansible.executor.powershell.module_manifest import PSModuleDepFinder
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import FILE_COMMON_ARGUMENTS, AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.six import reraise
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 
 from .utils import CaptureStd, find_executable, get_module_name_from_filename
 
diff --git a/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/utils.py b/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/utils.py
index 88d5b01af1..15cb703728 100644
--- a/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/utils.py
+++ b/test/lib/ansible_test/_util/controller/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/utils.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ from io import BytesIO, TextIOWrapper
 import yaml
 import yaml.reader
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.common.yaml import SafeLoader
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
diff --git a/test/support/integration/plugins/modules/htpasswd.py b/test/support/integration/plugins/modules/htpasswd.py
index 2c55a6bce1..b8062cd1e6 100644
--- a/test/support/integration/plugins/modules/htpasswd.py
+++ b/test/support/integration/plugins/modules/htpasswd.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ import tempfile
 import traceback
 from ansible.module_utils.compat.version import LooseVersion
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule, missing_required_lib
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 PASSLIB_IMP_ERR = None
 try:
diff --git a/test/support/integration/plugins/modules/sefcontext.py b/test/support/integration/plugins/modules/sefcontext.py
index 5574abcaa4..638612f325 100644
--- a/test/support/integration/plugins/modules/sefcontext.py
+++ b/test/support/integration/plugins/modules/sefcontext.py
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ import traceback
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule, missing_required_lib
 from ansible.module_utils.common.respawn import has_respawned, probe_interpreters_for_module, respawn_module
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 SELINUX_IMP_ERR = None
 try:
diff --git a/test/support/integration/plugins/modules/zypper.py b/test/support/integration/plugins/modules/zypper.py
index bfb318190d..678b227ba4 100644
--- a/test/support/integration/plugins/modules/zypper.py
+++ b/test/support/integration/plugins/modules/zypper.py
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ import xml
 import re
 from xml.dom.minidom import parseString as parseXML
 from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 # import module snippets
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/action/net_get.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/action/net_get.py
index 40205a466f..c6dbb2cf9b 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/action/net_get.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/action/net_get.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import uuid
 import hashlib
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import Connection, ConnectionError
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlsplit
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/action/net_put.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/action/net_put.py
index 955329d42e..6fa3b8d6e4 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/action/net_put.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/action/net_put.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import uuid
 import hashlib
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import Connection, ConnectionError
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlsplit
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/action/network.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/action/network.py
index 5d05d338f4..fbcc9c13fa 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/action/network.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/action/network.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import time
 import re
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlsplit
 from ansible.plugins.action.normal import ActionModule as _ActionModule
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/connection/network_cli.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/connection/network_cli.py
index fef4081049..68eaa88759 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/connection/network_cli.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/connection/network_cli.py
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ from functools import wraps
 from io import BytesIO
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleConnectionFailure, AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import missing_required_lib
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import cPickle
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/connection/persistent.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/connection/persistent.py
index b29b487284..c7379a63ad 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/connection/persistent.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/connection/persistent.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ options:
 """
 from ansible.executor.task_executor import start_connection
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import Connection as SocketConnection
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/config.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/config.py
index bc458eb591..64150405b0 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/config.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/config.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ import re
 import hashlib
 
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import zip
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native
 
 DEFAULT_COMMENT_TOKENS = ["#", "!", "/*", "*/", "echo"]
 
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/netconf.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/netconf.py
index 53a91e8cda..1857f7dfbf 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/netconf.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/netconf.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 #
 import sys
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import Connection, ConnectionError
 
 try:
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/network.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/network.py
index 555fc713e5..149b4413ee 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/network.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/network.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 import traceback
 import json
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import env_fallback
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import Connection, ConnectionError
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/utils.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/utils.py
index 47b3b0aca0..23c3e8880e 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/utils.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/module_utils/network/common/utils.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ import json
 
 from itertools import chain
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.collections_abc import Mapping
 from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems, string_types
 from ansible.module_utils import basic
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/modules/cli_config.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/modules/cli_config.py
index c1384c1d83..9d07e85659 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/modules/cli_config.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/modules/cli_config.py
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ import json
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import Connection
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 
 
 def validate_args(module, device_operations):
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/cliconf/ios.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/cliconf/ios.py
index feba971ac8..b9cb19d7f7 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/cliconf/ios.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/cliconf/ios.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import json
 from collections.abc import Mapping
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleConnectionFailure
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems
 from ansible_collections.ansible.netcommon.plugins.module_utils.network.common.config import (
     NetworkConfig,
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/module_utils/network/ios/ios.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/module_utils/network/ios/ios.py
index 6818a0ceba..c16d84c6a0 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/module_utils/network/ios/ios.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/module_utils/network/ios/ios.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 #
 import json
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import env_fallback
 from ansible_collections.ansible.netcommon.plugins.module_utils.network.common.utils import (
     to_list,
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/modules/ios_command.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/modules/ios_command.py
index ef383fcc1b..0b3be2a98c 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/modules/ios_command.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/modules/ios_command.py
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ failed_conditions:
 """
 import time
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible_collections.ansible.netcommon.plugins.module_utils.network.common.parsing import (
     Conditional,
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/modules/ios_config.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/modules/ios_config.py
index beec5b8d74..1ea2af7353 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/modules/ios_config.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/modules/ios_config.py
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ time:
 """
 import json
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import ConnectionError
 from ansible_collections.cisco.ios.plugins.module_utils.network.ios.ios import (
     run_commands,
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/terminal/ios.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/terminal/ios.py
index 29f31b0e76..9716952964 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/terminal/ios.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/cisco/ios/plugins/terminal/ios.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import json
 import re
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleConnectionFailure
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text, to_bytes
 from ansible.plugins.terminal import TerminalBase
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/cliconf/vyos.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/cliconf/vyos.py
index 3212615f0c..1f351dc592 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/cliconf/vyos.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/cliconf/vyos.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ import json
 from collections.abc import Mapping
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleConnectionFailure
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible_collections.ansible.netcommon.plugins.module_utils.network.common.config import (
     NetworkConfig,
 )
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/module_utils/network/vyos/vyos.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/module_utils/network/vyos/vyos.py
index 908395a6cc..7e8b204893 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/module_utils/network/vyos/vyos.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/module_utils/network/vyos/vyos.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 #
 import json
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import env_fallback
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import Connection, ConnectionError
 
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/modules/vyos_command.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/modules/vyos_command.py
index 18538491da..369d58279e 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/modules/vyos_command.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/modules/vyos_command.py
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ warnings:
 """
 import time
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible_collections.ansible.netcommon.plugins.module_utils.network.common.parsing import (
     Conditional,
diff --git a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/modules/vyos_config.py b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/modules/vyos_config.py
index b899045a9b..e65f3ffd2e 100644
--- a/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/modules/vyos_config.py
+++ b/test/support/network-integration/collections/ansible_collections/vyos/vyos/plugins/modules/vyos_config.py
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ time:
 """
 import re
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import ConnectionError
 from ansible_collections.vyos.vyos.plugins.module_utils.network.vyos.vyos import (
diff --git a/test/support/windows-integration/plugins/action/win_copy.py b/test/support/windows-integration/plugins/action/win_copy.py
index adb918be29..70dbff6bad 100644
--- a/test/support/windows-integration/plugins/action/win_copy.py
+++ b/test/support/windows-integration/plugins/action/win_copy.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import zipfile
 
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleFileNotFound
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.utils.hashing import checksum
diff --git a/test/support/windows-integration/plugins/action/win_reboot.py b/test/support/windows-integration/plugins/action/win_reboot.py
index c408f4f30e..c0d380ba73 100644
--- a/test/support/windows-integration/plugins/action/win_reboot.py
+++ b/test/support/windows-integration/plugins/action/win_reboot.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 from datetime import datetime
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.plugins.action.reboot import ActionModule as RebootActionModule
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/test/units/cli/galaxy/test_execute_list_collection.py b/test/units/cli/galaxy/test_execute_list_collection.py
index 95fae159cf..26afe1ef87 100644
--- a/test/units/cli/galaxy/test_execute_list_collection.py
+++ b/test/units/cli/galaxy/test_execute_list_collection.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from ansible.cli.galaxy import GalaxyCLI
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError
 from ansible.galaxy import collection
 from ansible.galaxy.dependency_resolution.dataclasses import Requirement
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.plugins.loader import init_plugin_loader
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/cli/test_galaxy.py b/test/units/cli/test_galaxy.py
index c21d75dcb9..bf37c5f316 100644
--- a/test/units/cli/test_galaxy.py
+++ b/test/units/cli/test_galaxy.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ from ansible.cli.galaxy import GalaxyCLI
 from ansible.galaxy import collection
 from ansible.galaxy.api import GalaxyAPI
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.utils import context_objects as co
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 from units.compat import unittest
diff --git a/test/units/cli/test_vault.py b/test/units/cli/test_vault.py
index d2fce7a912..f1399c3fa1 100644
--- a/test/units/cli/test_vault.py
+++ b/test/units/cli/test_vault.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ from units.mock.vault_helper import TextVaultSecret
 
 from ansible import context, errors
 from ansible.cli.vault import VaultCLI
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.utils import context_objects as co
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/config/manager/test_find_ini_config_file.py b/test/units/config/manager/test_find_ini_config_file.py
index df411388be..878ffd20ad 100644
--- a/test/units/config/manager/test_find_ini_config_file.py
+++ b/test/units/config/manager/test_find_ini_config_file.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import stat
 import pytest
 
 from ansible.config.manager import find_ini_config_file
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 
 real_exists = os.path.exists
 real_isdir = os.path.isdir
diff --git a/test/units/executor/test_interpreter_discovery.py b/test/units/executor/test_interpreter_discovery.py
index 43db595056..d98e729bf8 100644
--- a/test/units/executor/test_interpreter_discovery.py
+++ b/test/units/executor/test_interpreter_discovery.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock
 
 from ansible.executor.interpreter_discovery import discover_interpreter
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 
 mock_ubuntu_platform_res = to_text(
     r'{"osrelease_content": "NAME=\"Ubuntu\"\nVERSION=\"16.04.5 LTS (Xenial Xerus)\"\nID=ubuntu\nID_LIKE=debian\n'
diff --git a/test/units/galaxy/test_api.py b/test/units/galaxy/test_api.py
index 064aff2955..1eec9b68cd 100644
--- a/test/units/galaxy/test_api.py
+++ b/test/units/galaxy/test_api.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.galaxy import api as galaxy_api
 from ansible.galaxy.api import CollectionVersionMetadata, GalaxyAPI, GalaxyError
 from ansible.galaxy.token import BasicAuthToken, GalaxyToken, KeycloakToken
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib import error as urllib_error
 from ansible.utils import context_objects as co
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/test/units/galaxy/test_collection.py b/test/units/galaxy/test_collection.py
index 5d6f32456d..420bea209c 100644
--- a/test/units/galaxy/test_collection.py
+++ b/test/units/galaxy/test_collection.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from ansible import context
 from ansible.cli.galaxy import GalaxyCLI
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.galaxy import api, collection, token
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import builtins
 from ansible.utils import context_objects as co
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/test/units/galaxy/test_collection_install.py b/test/units/galaxy/test_collection_install.py
index f8fb6d57ed..69948fbdd4 100644
--- a/test/units/galaxy/test_collection_install.py
+++ b/test/units/galaxy/test_collection_install.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from ansible.cli.galaxy import GalaxyCLI
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.galaxy import collection, api, dependency_resolution
 from ansible.galaxy.dependency_resolution.dataclasses import Candidate, Requirement
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
 from ansible.utils import context_objects as co
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/test/units/galaxy/test_role_install.py b/test/units/galaxy/test_role_install.py
index 687fcac1e5..96ae0ce0d4 100644
--- a/test/units/galaxy/test_role_install.py
+++ b/test/units/galaxy/test_role_install.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from io import StringIO
 from ansible import context
 from ansible.cli.galaxy import GalaxyCLI
 from ansible.galaxy import api, role, Galaxy
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.utils import context_objects as co
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/galaxy/test_token.py b/test/units/galaxy/test_token.py
index 24af386314..9fc12d4672 100644
--- a/test/units/galaxy/test_token.py
+++ b/test/units/galaxy/test_token.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from unittest.mock import MagicMock
 import ansible.constants as C
 from ansible.cli.galaxy import GalaxyCLI, SERVER_DEF
 from ansible.galaxy.token import GalaxyToken, NoTokenSentinel
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 
 
 @pytest.fixture()
diff --git a/test/units/mock/loader.py b/test/units/mock/loader.py
index f6ceb37903..4bc7eab5a3 100644
--- a/test/units/mock/loader.py
+++ b/test/units/mock/loader.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import os
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 
 
 class DictDataLoader(DataLoader):
diff --git a/test/units/mock/procenv.py b/test/units/mock/procenv.py
index 7a61bfc37c..b25a94d8bb 100644
--- a/test/units/mock/procenv.py
+++ b/test/units/mock/procenv.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from contextlib import contextmanager
 from io import BytesIO, StringIO
 from units.compat import unittest
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 
 
 @contextmanager
diff --git a/test/units/mock/vault_helper.py b/test/units/mock/vault_helper.py
index dcce9c7841..5b2fdd2a38 100644
--- a/test/units/mock/vault_helper.py
+++ b/test/units/mock/vault_helper.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 
 from ansible.parsing.vault import VaultSecret
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_command_nonexisting.py b/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_command_nonexisting.py
index 9f348ebb0a..0dd3bd9883 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_command_nonexisting.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_command_nonexisting.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import json
 import sys
 import pytest
 import subprocess
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils import basic
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_run_command.py b/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_run_command.py
index 3a4ea52265..9f43aa0304 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_run_command.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_run_command.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from io import BytesIO
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY2
 from ansible.module_utils.compat import selectors
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_set_cwd.py b/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_set_cwd.py
index d413e50ad7..c094c6226a 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_set_cwd.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_set_cwd.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import os
 import tempfile
 
 from units.compat.mock import patch
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 
 from ansible.module_utils import basic
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_tmpdir.py b/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_tmpdir.py
index 818cb9b18f..ec12508b6c 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_tmpdir.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/basic/test_tmpdir.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import tempfile
 import pytest
 
 from units.compat.mock import patch, MagicMock
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 
 from ansible.module_utils import basic
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/parameters/test_handle_aliases.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/parameters/test_handle_aliases.py
index e20a88824b..6a8c2b2c5b 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/parameters/test_handle_aliases.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/parameters/test_handle_aliases.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 import pytest
 
 from ansible.module_utils.common.parameters import _handle_aliases
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 
 def test_handle_aliases_no_aliases():
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_missing_parameters.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_missing_parameters.py
index 24ce3a8134..1be8e71591 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_missing_parameters.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_missing_parameters.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_missing_parameters
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_mutually_exclusive.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_mutually_exclusive.py
index 7bf90760b1..acc67be8b1 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_mutually_exclusive.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_mutually_exclusive.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_mutually_exclusive
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_arguments.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_arguments.py
index 1dd54584bc..eb3d52e2fc 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_arguments.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_arguments.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_required_arguments
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_by.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_by.py
index 62cccff351..fcba0c14a6 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_by.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_by.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_required_by
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_if.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_if.py
index 4189164a42..4590b05c42 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_if.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_if.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_required_if
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_one_of.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_one_of.py
index b08188917d..efdba537d9 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_one_of.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_one_of.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_required_one_of
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_together.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_together.py
index 8a2daab17f..cf4626ab35 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_together.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_required_together.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_required_together
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_bits.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_bits.py
index 7f6b11d32c..aa91da94c0 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_bits.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_bits.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_type_bits
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_bool.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_bool.py
index bd867dc97e..00b785f68d 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_bool.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_bool.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_type_bool
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_bytes.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_bytes.py
index 6ff62dc2e8..c29e42f88c 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_bytes.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_bytes.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_type_bytes
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_float.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_float.py
index 57837fae32..a0218875b5 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_float.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_float.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_type_float
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_int.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_int.py
index 22cedf6148..6f4dc6a2d5 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_int.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_int.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_type_int
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_jsonarg.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_jsonarg.py
index e78e54bbca..d43bb035bd 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_jsonarg.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_jsonarg.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_type_jsonarg
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_str.py b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_str.py
index f10dad288b..71af2a0ba4 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_str.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/common/validation/test_check_type_str.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.common.validation import check_type_str
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/conftest.py b/test/units/module_utils/conftest.py
index dc810652c7..8e82bf2a67 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/conftest.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/conftest.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import pytest
 
 import ansible.module_utils.basic
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3, string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.collections_abc import MutableMapping
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/test_text.py b/test/units/module_utils/test_text.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..72ef2ab269
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/test_text.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+import codecs
+
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3, text_type, binary_type
+
+
+def test_exports():
+    """Ensure legacy attributes are exported."""
+
+    from ansible.module_utils import _text
+
+    assert _text.codecs == codecs
+    assert _text.PY3 == PY3
+    assert _text.text_type == text_type
+    assert _text.binary_type == binary_type
+    assert _text.to_bytes == to_bytes
+    assert _text.to_native == to_native
+    assert _text.to_text == to_text
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/urls/test_urls.py b/test/units/module_utils/urls/test_urls.py
index 69c1b8240c..f0e5e9ea0f 100644
--- a/test/units/module_utils/urls/test_urls.py
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/urls/test_urls.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 __metaclass__ = type
 
 from ansible.module_utils import urls
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 import pytest
 
diff --git a/test/units/modules/conftest.py b/test/units/modules/conftest.py
index b5cd636b63..11be67f0ed 100644
--- a/test/units/modules/conftest.py
+++ b/test/units/modules/conftest.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import json
 import pytest
 
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.collections_abc import MutableMapping
 
 
diff --git a/test/units/modules/test_known_hosts.py b/test/units/modules/test_known_hosts.py
index 123dd75f88..667f3e507f 100644
--- a/test/units/modules/test_known_hosts.py
+++ b/test/units/modules/test_known_hosts.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import tempfile
 from ansible.module_utils import basic
 
 from units.compat import unittest
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
 
 from ansible.modules.known_hosts import compute_diff, sanity_check
diff --git a/test/units/modules/utils.py b/test/units/modules/utils.py
index 6d169e36f0..d356d2557e 100644
--- a/test/units/modules/utils.py
+++ b/test/units/modules/utils.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import json
 from units.compat import unittest
 from units.compat.mock import patch
 from ansible.module_utils import basic
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 
 
 def set_module_args(args):
diff --git a/test/units/parsing/test_dataloader.py b/test/units/parsing/test_dataloader.py
index 9ec49a8d31..f60d33ab69 100644
--- a/test/units/parsing/test_dataloader.py
+++ b/test/units/parsing/test_dataloader.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ from units.compat import unittest
 from unittest.mock import patch, mock_open
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError, yaml_strings, AnsibleFileNotFound
 from ansible.parsing.vault import AnsibleVaultError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3
 
 from units.mock.vault_helper import TextVaultSecret
diff --git a/test/units/parsing/vault/test_vault.py b/test/units/parsing/vault/test_vault.py
index 7afd356008..3a435369cd 100644
--- a/test/units/parsing/vault/test_vault.py
+++ b/test/units/parsing/vault/test_vault.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ from unittest.mock import patch, MagicMock
 
 from ansible import errors
 from ansible.module_utils import six
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.parsing import vault
 
 from units.mock.loader import DictDataLoader
diff --git a/test/units/parsing/vault/test_vault_editor.py b/test/units/parsing/vault/test_vault_editor.py
index 37791839bb..a3bbcf8b17 100644
--- a/test/units/parsing/vault/test_vault_editor.py
+++ b/test/units/parsing/vault/test_vault_editor.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ from ansible.parsing import vault
 from ansible.parsing.vault import VaultLib, VaultEditor, match_encrypt_secret
 
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
 
 from units.mock.vault_helper import TextVaultSecret
 
diff --git a/test/units/parsing/yaml/test_objects.py b/test/units/parsing/yaml/test_objects.py
index f64b708f17..2a97d70367 100644
--- a/test/units/parsing/yaml/test_objects.py
+++ b/test/units/parsing/yaml/test_objects.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from units.compat import unittest
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 
 from ansible.parsing import vault
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.loader import AnsibleLoader
diff --git a/test/units/plugins/action/test_action.py b/test/units/plugins/action/test_action.py
index 40af80819f..e96e64ac09 100644
--- a/test/units/plugins/action/test_action.py
+++ b/test/units/plugins/action/test_action.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ from unittest.mock import patch, MagicMock, mock_open
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleAuthenticationFailure
 from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote, builtins
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.playbook.play_context import PlayContext
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 from ansible.plugins.loader import init_plugin_loader
diff --git a/test/units/plugins/connection/test_ssh.py b/test/units/plugins/connection/test_ssh.py
index 1f01188af4..9d008333c8 100644
--- a/test/units/plugins/connection/test_ssh.py
+++ b/test/units/plugins/connection/test_ssh.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ from unittest.mock import patch, MagicMock, PropertyMock
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleConnectionFailure, AnsibleFileNotFound
 from ansible.module_utils.compat.selectors import SelectorKey, EVENT_READ
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.playbook.play_context import PlayContext
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ssh
 from ansible.plugins.loader import connection_loader, become_loader
diff --git a/test/units/plugins/connection/test_winrm.py b/test/units/plugins/connection/test_winrm.py
index cb52814b86..0a19850bc1 100644
--- a/test/units/plugins/connection/test_winrm.py
+++ b/test/units/plugins/connection/test_winrm.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from io import StringIO
 
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleConnectionFailure
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.playbook.play_context import PlayContext
 from ansible.plugins.loader import connection_loader
 from ansible.plugins.connection import winrm
diff --git a/test/units/plugins/filter/test_core.py b/test/units/plugins/filter/test_core.py
index 8a626d9a75..ab09ec4396 100644
--- a/test/units/plugins/filter/test_core.py
+++ b/test/units/plugins/filter/test_core.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import pytest
 
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.plugins.filter.core import to_uuid
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
 
diff --git a/test/units/plugins/inventory/test_inventory.py b/test/units/plugins/inventory/test_inventory.py
index df24607365..fb5342afbd 100644
--- a/test/units/plugins/inventory/test_inventory.py
+++ b/test/units/plugins/inventory/test_inventory.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from unittest import mock
 from ansible import constants as C
 from units.compat import unittest
 from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from units.mock.path import mock_unfrackpath_noop
 
 from ansible.inventory.manager import InventoryManager, split_host_pattern
diff --git a/test/units/plugins/inventory/test_script.py b/test/units/plugins/inventory/test_script.py
index 9f75199f16..f4a172a4dd 100644
--- a/test/units/plugins/inventory/test_script.py
+++ b/test/units/plugins/inventory/test_script.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.plugins.loader import PluginLoader
 from units.compat import unittest
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native
 
 
 class TestInventoryModule(unittest.TestCase):
diff --git a/test/units/plugins/lookup/test_password.py b/test/units/plugins/lookup/test_password.py
index 1caec33e56..fa7d001e97 100644
--- a/test/units/plugins/lookup/test_password.py
+++ b/test/units/plugins/lookup/test_password.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ from unittest.mock import mock_open, patch
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import builtins
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.plugins.loader import PluginLoader, lookup_loader
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import password