1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/setuptools/unicode_utils.py b/setuptools/unicode_utils.py
index 3b8179a8..7c63efd2 100644
--- a/setuptools/unicode_utils.py
+++ b/setuptools/unicode_utils.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import unicodedata
 import sys
-import re
 
 from setuptools.extern import six
 
@@ -43,15 +42,3 @@ def try_encode(string, enc):
         return string.encode(enc)
     except UnicodeEncodeError:
         return None
-
-
-CODING_RE = re.compile(br'^[ \t\f]*#.*?coding[:=][ \t]*([-\w.]+)')
-
-
-def detect_encoding(fp):
-    first_line = fp.readline()
-    fp.seek(0)
-    m = CODING_RE.match(first_line)
-    if m is None:
-        return None
-    return m.group(1).decode('ascii')