diff --git a/docs/html/conf.py b/docs/html/conf.py
index 1f3131ce3..9e65cbe7a 100644
--- a/docs/html/conf.py
+++ b/docs/html/conf.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-#
# pip documentation build configuration file, created by
# sphinx-quickstart on Tue Apr 22 22:08:49 2008
#
diff --git a/src/pip/_internal/commands/wheel.py b/src/pip/_internal/commands/wheel.py
index f9be31096..13dad544c 100644
--- a/src/pip/_internal/commands/wheel.py
+++ b/src/pip/_internal/commands/wheel.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
import logging
import os
import shutil
diff --git a/tests/functional/test_install_wheel.py b/tests/functional/test_install_wheel.py
index 177e86db3..9bf965625 100644
--- a/tests/functional/test_install_wheel.py
+++ b/tests/functional/test_install_wheel.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
import csv
import distutils
import glob
diff --git a/tests/lib/path.py b/tests/lib/path.py
index 2a9e29d8c..a9dc29ad7 100644
--- a/tests/lib/path.py
+++ b/tests/lib/path.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
# flake8: noqa
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Author: Aziz Köksal
import glob
import os
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_compat.py b/tests/unit/test_compat.py
index 9411bad0a..cc024b570 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_compat.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_compat.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
import locale
import os
import sys
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_utils.py b/tests/unit/test_utils.py
index 6ed479ae8..57434669e 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_utils.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
"""
util tests
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_utils_subprocess.py b/tests/unit/test_utils_subprocess.py
index c8ac7b817..fd73878c1 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_utils_subprocess.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_utils_subprocess.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import locale
import sys
from logging import DEBUG, ERROR, INFO, WARNING
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_wheel.py b/tests/unit/test_wheel.py
index 6e7adc2a5..0f7a3c074 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_wheel.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_wheel.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
"""Tests for wheel binary packages and .dist-info."""
import csv
import logging