Fully remove percent_encode

Author: pquentin

elastic_transport/client_utils.py

@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
     "create_user_agent",
     "dataclasses",
     "parse_cloud_id",
-    "percent_encode",
     "resolve_default",
     "to_bytes",
     "to_str",
@@ -149,18 +148,6 @@ def to_bytes(
     return value
 
 
-def percent_encode(
-    string: Union[bytes, str],
-    safe: str = "/",
-    encoding: Optional[str] = None,
-    errors: Optional[str] = None,
-) -> str:
-    """Percent-encodes a string so it can be used in an HTTP request target"""
-    # This function used to add `~` to unreserverd characters, but this was fixed in Python 3.7.
-    # Keeping the function here as it is part of the public API.
-    return _quote(string, safe, encoding=encoding, errors=errors)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
-
-
 def basic_auth_to_header(basic_auth: Tuple[str, str]) -> str:
     """Converts a 2-tuple into a 'Basic' HTTP Authorization header"""
     if (