[Numpy-discussion] Remove deprecated skiprows

[Wes McKinney]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Ralf Gommers
<ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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
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FYI:

http://docs.python.org/library/warnings.html

"DeprecationWarning	Base category for warnings about deprecated
features (ignored by default)."

Maybe DeprecationWarnings should be changed to something that isn't
ignored by default so users see it?