[Numpy-discussion] Deprecating `numpy.iterable`

[Benjamin Root]

Huh... matplotlib could use that! We have been using our own internal
function left over from the numerix days, I think.

Ben Root

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> Oh wow, yeah, there are tons of uses:
>
> https://github.com/search?q=%22np.iterable%22&ref=simplesearch&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93
>
> Meh, I dunno, maybe we're stuck with it. It's not a major maintenance
> burden at least.
>
> -n
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Stephan Hoyer <shoyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We certainly can (and probably should) deprecate this, but we can't
> remove
> > it for a very long time.
> >
> > np.iterable is used in a lot of third party code.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz
> > <jfoxrabinovitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have created a PR to deprecate `np.iterable`
> >> (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/7202). It is a very old function,
> >> introduced as a utility in 2005
> >>
> >> (
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/052a7b2e3276a303be1083022fc24d43084d2e14
> ),
> >> and there is no good reason for it to be part of the public API. It is
> >> used internally 10 times within numpy. I have repaced those usages
> >> with a private function `np.lib.function_base._iterable` and added a
> >> `DeprecationWarning` to the public function.
> >>
> >> Is there anyone that objects to deprecating this function?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >>     -Joseph
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