DEP: Deprecate quote_args (from numpy.distutils.misc_util) #19811
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If we keep the function, a deprecation should be issued when it is called. It dates back to 2007 and I don't see it used in pandas, scipy, astropy, etc., so it is probably safe to remove it. It probably never really existed because it is undocumented :) The problem with |
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I think we should emit a deprecation warning like |
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Thanks, warning added. The function is really basic, and I doubt there would be a huge loss to anyone if it was removed. Is there a procedure to remove a public function 8000 without prior deprecation? Otherwise, it should be removed after one or two release cycles. |
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Thanks @mwtoews. Yes, we have a policy of 2 releases (1 year). As a matter of fact, there are a few deprecations we could remove since they were deprecated before 1.20 and we are currently looking at releasing 1.22. |
The utility function
quote_argswas in-use until gh-12413, but this functions is no longer used in NumPy. It is not used by SciPy.An alternative proposal is to simply remove the function.
Xref gh-19781 (comment), gh-12411 (comment) and gh-12892.