[Numpy-discussion] Removal of Deprecated Keywords/functionality

[Charles R Harris]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Jun 20, 2015 1:43 PM, "Charles R Harris" <charlesr.harris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > There are three long ago deprecations that I am not sure how to handle.
> >
> > keywords skiprows and missing in genfromtxt, deprecated in 1.5.
> > keyword old_behavior (default False) in correlate. added in 1.5 at
> least, but default value changed later.
> >
> > The documentation says they will be removed in numpy 2.0, but we might
> want to try ealier. The case of the correlation function is trickier, as we
> probabaly need to provide a function with the old behavior before removing
> the keyword.
>
> Wouldn't this function just be
> correlate(a, conj(b))
> ? Surely just writing that is easier and clearer than any function call we
> could provide.
>
> > I've left these cases as is, but the more old stuff hanging about the
> greater our technical debt.
>
> I guess we could try dropping them from the first release candidate and at
> least get some data on whether anyone notices.
>
> 1.5 was a lonnnng time ago.
>

I just removed all of these cases (in separate commits). We will see what
happens. Note that the
"skiprows" keyword is still used in loadtxt. It should probably be
deprecated there for consistency, but it is possible that some use it as a
positional argument.

Chuck
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