1 files changed, 0 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 7d846d680..c761ea22a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1652,29 +1652,6 @@ def encode_dict(d, encoding='utf-8'):
     return dict((k.encode(encoding), v.encode(encoding)) for k, v in d.items())
 
 
-try:
-    etree_iter = xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.iter
-except AttributeError:  # Python <=2.6
-    etree_iter = lambda n: n.findall('.//*')
-
-
-def parse_xml(s):
-    class TreeBuilder(xml.etree.ElementTree.TreeBuilder):
-        def doctype(self, name, pubid, system):
-            pass  # Ignore doctypes
-
-    parser = xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLParser(target=TreeBuilder())
-    kwargs = {'parser': parser} if sys.version_info >= (2, 7) else {}
-    tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(s.encode('utf-8'), **kwargs)
-    # Fix up XML parser in Python 2.x
-    if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
-        for n in etree_iter(tree):
-            if n.text is not None:
-                if not isinstance(n.text, compat_str):
-                    n.text = n.text.decode('utf-8')
-    return tree
-
-
 US_RATINGS = {
     'G': 0,
     'PG': 10,