1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/swiftclient/client.py b/swiftclient/client.py
index a9130ab..168bfed 100644
--- a/swiftclient/client.py
+++ b/swiftclient/client.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import warnings
 
 from requests.exceptions import RequestException, SSLError
 import http.client as http_client
-from urllib.parse import quote as _quote, unquote
+from urllib.parse import quote, unquote
 from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse, urlunparse
 from time import sleep, time
 
@@ -181,14 +181,6 @@ def parse_header_string(data):
     return unquoted
 
 
-def quote(value, safe='/'):
-    """
-    Patched version of urllib.quote that encodes utf8 strings before quoting.
-    On Python 3, call directly urllib.parse.quote().
-    """
-    return _quote(value, safe=safe)
-
-
 def encode_utf8(value):
     if type(value) in (int, float, bool):
         # As of requests 2.11.0, headers must be byte- or unicode-strings.