From 54179117039c9e07e8c55c385b75f0e8a1f3e082 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "sentry-junior[bot]"
 <264270552+sentry-junior[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:25:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ref(tracing): Remove unused base64_stripped regex

---
 sentry_sdk/tracing_utils.py | 12 ------------
 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sentry_sdk/tracing_utils.py b/sentry_sdk/tracing_utils.py
index 2ac3a67e4b..4d4c35ce39 100644
--- a/sentry_sdk/tracing_utils.py
+++ b/sentry_sdk/tracing_utils.py
@@ -67,18 +67,6 @@
 )
 
 
-# This is a normal base64 regex, modified to reflect that fact that we strip the
-# trailing = or == off
-base64_stripped = (
-    # any of the characters in the base64 "alphabet", in multiples of 4
-    "([a-zA-Z0-9+/]{4})*"
-    # either nothing or 2 or 3 base64-alphabet characters (see
-    # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#Decoding_Base64_without_padding for
-    # why there's never only 1 extra character)
-    "([a-zA-Z0-9+/]{2,3})?"
-)
-
-
 class EnvironHeaders(Mapping):  # type: ignore
     def __init__(
         self,