diff --git a/Lib/codecs.py b/Lib/codecs.py
index e6ad6e3a052..5a1e7ec8040 100644
--- a/Lib/codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/codecs.py
@@ -1114,13 +1114,3 @@ def make_encoding_map(decoding_map):
 _false = 0
 if _false:
     import encodings
-
-### Tests
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-
-    # Make stdout translate Latin-1 output into UTF-8 output
-    sys.stdout = EncodedFile(sys.stdout, 'latin-1', 'utf-8')
-
-    # Have stdin translate Latin-1 input into UTF-8 input
-    sys.stdin = EncodedFile(sys.stdin, 'utf-8', 'latin-1')
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-06-24-19-40-40.gh-issue-93096.3RlK2d.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-06-24-19-40-40.gh-issue-93096.3RlK2d.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f7d9e33eb41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-06-24-19-40-40.gh-issue-93096.3RlK2d.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Removed undocumented ``python -m codecs``. Use ``python -m unittest
+test.test_codecs.EncodedFileTest`` instead.