[Numpy-discussion] Remove deprecated skiprows

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Skipper Seabold <jsseabold at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Should skiprows be removed?
>>
>>     if skiprows:
>>         warnings.warn(\
>>             "The use of `skiprows` is deprecated, it will be removed in
>> numpy 2.0.\n" \
>>             "Please use `skip_header` instead.",
>>             DeprecationWarning)
>>         skip_header = skiprows
>>
>> Its been deprecated since 1.4. Personally, I like skiprows better than
>> skip_header ;)
>>
>
> +1 for skiprows. I always have to look it up.

To me one is not much better than the other, but -1 for skiprows
because un-deprecating it and deprecating skip_header is inconsistent
and annoying for users.

Ralf