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-rw-r--r--bs4/element.py17
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/bs4/element.py b/bs4/element.py
index d9c69c9..46554d1 100644
--- a/bs4/element.py
+++ b/bs4/element.py
@@ -315,23 +315,6 @@ class PageElement(object):
encoding = encoding or "utf-8"
return str.replace("%SOUP-ENCODING%", encoding)
- def to_encoding(self, s, encoding=None):
- """Encodes an object to a string in some encoding, or to Unicode.
- ."""
- if isinstance(s, unicode):
- if encoding:
- s = s.encode(encoding)
- elif isinstance(s, str):
- if encoding:
- s = s.encode(encoding)
- else:
- s = unicode(s)
- else:
- if encoding:
- s = self.to_encoding(str(s), encoding)
- else:
- s = unicode(s)
- return s
class NavigableString(unicode, PageElement):