From daf1e2838450f1b29165971ae9ee9f3062d7057c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Turner <9087854+aa-turner@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:30:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove ``sphinx.util._coding_re``

---
 sphinx/util/__init__.py | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sphinx/util/__init__.py b/sphinx/util/__init__.py
index 07169f20b9f..999c5ce4c11 100644
--- a/sphinx/util/__init__.py
+++ b/sphinx/util/__init__.py
@@ -142,10 +142,6 @@ def merge_other(self, docnames: set[str], other: dict[str, tuple[set[str], Any]]
                 self.add_file(docname, filename)
 
 
-# a regex to recognize coding cookies
-_coding_re = re.compile(r'coding[:=]\s*([-\w.]+)')
-
-
 class UnicodeDecodeErrorHandler:
     """Custom error handler for open() that warns and replaces."""