diff --git a/openstackclient/tests/unit/test_shell.py b/openstackclient/tests/unit/test_shell.py
index 366c364e06..bee2b40149 100644
--- a/openstackclient/tests/unit/test_shell.py
+++ b/openstackclient/tests/unit/test_shell.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 
 import importlib
 import os
-import sys
 from unittest import mock
 
 from osc_lib.tests import utils as osc_lib_test_utils
@@ -412,32 +411,3 @@ class TestShellCli(TestShell):
             "network_api_version": LIB_NETWORK_API_VERSION
         }
         self._assert_cli(flag, kwargs)
-
-
-class TestShellArgV(TestShell):
-    """Test the deferred help flag"""
-
-    def test_shell_argv(self):
-        """Test argv decoding
-
-        Python 2 does nothing with argv while Python 3 decodes it into
-        Unicode before we ever see it.  We manually decode when running
-        under Python 2 so verify that we get the right argv types.
-
-        Use the argv supplied by the test runner so we get actual Python
-        runtime behaviour; we only need to check the type of argv[0]
-        which will always be present.
-        """
-
-        with mock.patch(
-                self.shell_class_name + ".run",
-                self.app,
-        ):
-            # Ensure type gets through unmolested through shell.main()
-            argv = sys.argv
-            shell.main(sys.argv)
-            self.assertEqual(type(argv[0]), type(self.app.call_args[0][0][0]))
-
-            # When shell.main() gets sys.argv itself it should be decoded
-            shell.main()
-            self.assertEqual(type(u'x'), type(self.app.call_args[0][0][0]))