From e5070789ccb8e42e720d10b15ccd21ead865c375 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Johnson <me@adamj.eu>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:16:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] PYTHON-5679 Optimize `ObjectId.__str__()` (#2657)

Co-authored-by: Steven Silvester <steven.silvester@ieee.org>
---
 bson/objectid.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bson/objectid.py b/bson/objectid.py
index 970c4e52e..d3c64ef7c 100644
--- a/bson/objectid.py
+++ b/bson/objectid.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 """Tools for working with MongoDB ObjectIds."""
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-import binascii
 import datetime
 import os
 import struct
@@ -234,7 +233,7 @@ class ObjectId:
             self.__id = oid
 
     def __str__(self) -> str:
-        return binascii.hexlify(self.__id).decode()
+        return self.__id.hex()
 
     def __repr__(self) -> str:
         return f"ObjectId('{self!s}')"