removing duplicate `get_utf8_value` method

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/boto/utils.py b/boto/utils.py
index ed782b85..5e047d88 100644
--- a/boto/utils.py
+++ b/boto/utils.py
@@ -1132,20 +1132,6 @@ def get_utf8able_str(s, errors='strict'):
     raise TypeError('not expecting type "%s"' % type(s))
 
 
-def get_utf8_value(value):
-    if isinstance(value, bytes):
-        value.decode('utf-8')
-        return value
-
-    if not isinstance(value, six.string_types):
-        value = six.text_type(value)
-
-    if isinstance(value, six.text_type):
-        value = value.encode('utf-8')
-
-    return value
-
-
 def print_to_fd(*objects, **kwargs):
     """A Python 2/3 compatible analogue to the print function.