diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-09-13-12-06-09.bpo-34653.z8NE-i.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-09-13-12-06-09.bpo-34653.z8NE-i.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..30193742a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-09-13-12-06-09.bpo-34653.z8NE-i.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Remove unused function PyParser_SimpleParseStringFilename.
diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c
index 43a98c96cd..276c5d1028 100644
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c
@@ -1295,12 +1295,6 @@ PyParser_SimpleParseStringFlagsFilename(const char *str, const char *filename,
     return n;
 }
 
-node *
-PyParser_SimpleParseStringFilename(const char *str, const char *filename, int start)
-{
-    return PyParser_SimpleParseStringFlagsFilename(str, filename, start, 0);
-}
-
 /* May want to move a more generalized form of this to parsetok.c or
    even parser modules. */