numpy · rgommers · Jun 14, 2023 · May 28, 2023 · Jun 10, 2023 · Jun 14, 2023
diff --git a/numpy/__init__.py b/numpy/__init__.py
@@ -135,10 +135,10 @@
 
     # mapping of {name: (value, deprecation_msg)}
     __deprecated_attrs__ = {}
+    __expired_functions__ = {}
 
     from . import core
     from .core import *
-    from . import compat
     from . import exceptions
     from . import dtypes
     from . import lib
@@ -259,12 +259,13 @@
     # a warning, and calling the function will raise an exception.
     _financial_names = ['fv', 'ipmt', 'irr', 'mirr', 'nper', 'npv', 'pmt',
                         'ppmt', 'pv', 'rate']
-    __expired_functions__ = {
-        name: (f'In accordance with NEP 32, the function {name} was removed '
-               'from NumPy version 1.20.  A replacement for this function '
-               'is available in the numpy_financial library: '
-               'https://pypi.org/project/numpy-financial')
-        for name in _financial_names}
+    for name in _financial_names:
+        __expired_functions__[name] = (
+            f'In accordance with NEP 32, the function {name} was removed '
+            'from NumPy version 1.20.  A replacement for this function '
+            'is available in the numpy_financial library: '
+            'https://pypi.org/project/numpy-financial'
+        )
 
     # Filter out Cython harmless warnings
     warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message="numpy.dtype size changed")
@@ -318,6 +319,9 @@ def _expired(*args, **kwds):
         elif attr == 'Tester':
             "Removed in NumPy 1.25.0"
             raise RuntimeError("Tester was removed in NumPy 1.25.")
+        elif attr == "compat":
+            import numpy.compat as compat
+            return compat
 
         raise AttributeError("module {!r} has no attribute "
                              "{!r}".format(__name__, attr))

diff --git a/numpy/_utils/_convertions.py b/numpy/_utils/_convertions.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+"""
+A set of methods retained from np.compat module that
+are still used across codebase.
+"""
+
+__all__ = ["asunicode", "asbytes"]
+
+
+def asunicode(s):
+    if isinstance(s, bytes):
+        return s.decode('latin1')
+    return str(s)
+
+
+def asbytes(s):
+    if isinstance(s, bytes):
+        return s
+    return str(s).encode('latin1')
diff --git a/numpy/compat/__init__.py b/numpy/compat/__init__.py
@@ -7,13 +7,23 @@
   * compatibility
   * we may only need a small subset of the copied library/module
 
+This module is deprecated since 1.26.0 and will be removed in future versions.
+
 """
 
+import warnings
+
 from .._utils import _inspect
 from .._utils._inspect import getargspec, formatargspec
 from . import py3k
 from .py3k import *
 
+warnings.warn(
+    "`np.compat`, which was used during the Python 2 to 3 transition,"
+    " is deprecated since 1.26.0, and will be removed",
+    DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2
+)
+
 __all__ = []
 __all__.extend(_inspect.__all__)
 __all__.extend(py3k.__all__)
diff --git a/numpy/compat/tests/test_compat.py b/numpy/compat/tests/test_compat.py
diff --git a/numpy/core/_methods.py b/numpy/core/_methods.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 and the Python code for the NumPy-namespace function
 
 """
+import os
+import pickle
 import warnings
 from contextlib import nullcontext
 
@@ -13,7 +15,6 @@
 from numpy.core import _exceptions
 from numpy.core._ufunc_config import _no_nep50_warning
 from numpy._globals import _NoValue
-from numpy.compat import pickle, os_fspath
 
 # save those O(100) nanoseconds!
 umr_maximum = um.maximum.reduce
@@ -226,7 +227,7 @@ def _dump(self, file, protocol=2):
     if hasattr(file, 'write'):
         ctx = nullcontext(file)
     else:
-        ctx = open(os_fspath(file), "wb")
+        ctx = open(os.fspath(file), "wb")
     with ctx as f:
         pickle.dump(self, f, protocol=protocol)
 

diff --git a/numpy/core/_type_aliases.py b/numpy/core/_type_aliases.py
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 
 """
 
-from numpy.compat import unicode
 from numpy.core._string_helpers import english_lower
 from numpy.core.multiarray import typeinfo, dtype
 from numpy.core._dtype import _kind_name
@@ -195,10 +194,11 @@ def _set_up_aliases():
 
 
 sctypes = {'int': [],
-           'uint':[],
-           'float':[],
-           'complex':[],
-           'others':[bool, object, bytes, unicode, void]}
+           'uint': [],
+           'float': [],
+           'complex': [],
+           'others': [bool, object, bytes, str, void]}
+
 
 def _add_array_type(typename, bits):
     try:

diff --git a/numpy/core/defchararray.py b/numpy/core/defchararray.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 from .numeric import array as narray
 from numpy.core.multiarray import _vec_string
 from numpy.core import overrides
-from numpy.compat import asbytes
+from numpy._utils._convertions import asbytes
 import numpy
 
 __all__ = [
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ def _clean_args(*args):
         newargs.append(chk)
     return newargs
 
+
 def _get_num_chars(a):
     """
     Helper function that returns the number of characters per field in

diff --git a/numpy/core/memmap.py b/numpy/core/memmap.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 import numpy as np
 from .._utils import set_module
 from .numeric import uint8, ndarray, dtype
-from numpy.compat import os_fspath, is_pathlib_path
 
 __all__ = ['memmap']
 
@@ -226,7 +225,10 @@ def __new__(subtype, filename, dtype=uint8, mode='r+', offset=0,
         if hasattr(filename, 'read'):
             f_ctx = nullcontext(filename)
         else:
-            f_ctx = open(os_fspath(filename), ('r' if mode == 'c' else mode)+'b')
+            f_ctx = open(
+                os.fspath(filename),
+                ('r' if mode == 'c' else mode)+'b'
+            )
 
         with f_ctx as fid:
             fid.seek(0, 2)
@@ -273,7 +275,7 @@ def __new__(subtype, filename, dtype=uint8, mode='r+', offset=0,
             self.offset = offset
             self.mode = mode
 
-            if is_pathlib_path(filename):
+            if isinstance(filename, os.PathLike):
                 # special case - if we were constructed with a pathlib.path,
                 # then filename is a path object, not a string
                 self.filename = filename.resolve()

diff --git a/numpy/core/numerictypes.py b/numpy/core/numerictypes.py
@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@
 # we don't export these for import *, but we do want them accessible
 # as numerictypes.bool, etc.
 from builtins import bool, int, float, complex, object, str, bytes
-from numpy.compat import long, unicode
 
 
 # We use this later

diff --git a/numpy/core/records.py b/numpy/core/records.py
@@ -33,14 +33,14 @@
   array([2., 2.])
 
 """
+import os
 import warnings
 from collections import Counter
 from contextlib import nullcontext
 
 from .._utils import set_module
 from . import numeric as sb
 from . import numerictypes as nt
-from numpy.compat import os_fspath
 from .arrayprint import _get_legacy_print_mode
 
 # All of the functions allow formats to be a dtype
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ def fromfile(fd, dtype=None, shape=None, offset=0, formats=None,
         ctx = nullcontext(fd)
     else:
         # open file
-        ctx = open(os_fspath(fd), 'rb')
+        ctx = open(os.fspath(fd), 'rb')
 
     with ctx as fd:
         if offset > 0:

diff --git a/numpy/core/setup.py b/numpy/core/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 from numpy.distutils.msvccompiler import lib_opts_if_msvc
 from distutils.dep_util import newer
 from sysconfig import get_config_var
-from numpy.compat import npy_load_module
 from setup_common import *  # noqa: F403
 
 # Set to True to enable relaxed strides checking. This (mostly) means

diff --git a/numpy/core/src/multiarray/methods.h b/numpy/core/src/multiarray/methods.h
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ NpyPath_PathlikeToFspath(PyObject *file)
 {
     static PyObject *os_PathLike = NULL;
     static PyObject *os_fspath = NULL;
-    npy_cache_import("numpy.compat", "os_PathLike", &os_PathLike);
+    npy_cache_import("os", "PathLike", &os_PathLike);
     if (os_PathLike == NULL) {
         return NULL;
     }
-    npy_cache_import("numpy.compat", "os_fspath", &os_fspath);
+    npy_cache_import("os", "fspath", &os_fspath);
     if (os_fspath == NULL) {
         return NULL;
     }

diff --git a/numpy/core/tests/test_datetime.py b/numpy/core/tests/test_datetime.py
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
+import datetime
+import pickle
+
+import pytest
 
 import numpy
 import numpy as np
-import datetime
-import pytest
 from numpy.testing import (
     IS_WASM,
     assert_, assert_equal, assert_raises, assert_warns, suppress_warnings,
     assert_raises_regex, assert_array_equal,
     )
-from numpy.compat import pickle
 
 # Use pytz to test out various time zones if available
 try:

diff --git a/numpy/core/tests/test_deprecations.py b/numpy/core/tests/test_deprecations.py
@@ -815,3 +815,12 @@ def test_deprecated_np_math(self):
 
     def test_deprecated_np_lib_math(self):
         self.assert_deprecated(lambda: np.lib.math)
+
+
+class TestLibImports(_DeprecationTestCase):
+    # Deprecated in Numpy 1.26.0, 2023-09
+    def test_lib_functions_deprecation_call(self):
+        from numpy.lib import byte_bounds, safe_eval, who
+        self.assert_deprecated(lambda: byte_bounds(np.array([1])))
+        self.assert_deprecated(lambda: safe_eval("None"))
+        self.assert_deprecated(lambda: who())
diff --git a/numpy/core/tests/test_dtype.py b/numpy/core/tests/test_dtype.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import gc
 import types
 from typing import Any
+import pickle
 
 import numpy as np
 import numpy.dtypes
@@ -13,7 +14,6 @@
 from numpy.testing import (
     assert_, assert_equal, assert_array_equal, assert_raises, HAS_REFCOUNT,
     IS_PYSTON, _OLD_PROMOTION)
-from numpy.compat import pickle
 from itertools import permutations
 import random
 
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ def assert_dtype_not_equal(a, b):
             "two different types hash to the same value !")
 
 class TestBuiltin:
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize('t', [int, float, complex, np.int32, str, object,
-                                   np.compat.unicode])
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('t', [int, float, complex, np.int32, str, object])
     def test_run(self, t):
         """Only test hash runs at all."""
         dt = np.dtype(t)
@@ -1299,7 +1298,7 @@ def check_pickling(self, dtype):
             assert_equal(x[0], y[0])
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize('t', [int, float, complex, np.int32, str, object,
-                                   np.compat.unicode, bool])
+                                   bool])
     def test_builtin(self, t):
         self.check_pickling(np.dtype(t))
 

diff --git a/numpy/core/tests/test_multiarray.py b/numpy/core/tests/test_multiarray.py
@@ -15,9 +15,7 @@
 import weakref
 import pytest
 from contextlib import contextmanager
-
-from numpy.compat import pickle
-
+import pickle
 import pathlib
 import builtins
 from decimal import Decimal

diff --git a/numpy/core/tests/test_overrides.py b/numpy/core/tests/test_overrides.py
@@ -4,15 +4,16 @@
 import tempfile
 from io import StringIO
 from unittest import mock
+import pickle
+
+import pytest
 
 import numpy as np
 from numpy.testing import (
     assert_, assert_equal, assert_raises, assert_raises_regex)
 from numpy.core.overrides import (
     _get_implementing_args, array_function_dispatch,
     verify_matching_signatures)
-from numpy.compat import pickle
-import pytest
 
 
 def _return_not_implemented(self, *args, **kwargs):

diff --git a/numpy/core/tests/test_records.py b/numpy/core/tests/test_records.py
@@ -3,14 +3,15 @@
 from io import BytesIO
 from os import path
 from pathlib import Path
+import pickle
+
 import pytest
 
 import numpy as np
 from numpy.testing import (
     assert_, assert_equal, assert_array_equal, assert_array_almost_equal,
     assert_raises, temppath,
     )
-from numpy.compat import pickle
 
 
 class TestFromrecords:

diff --git a/numpy/core/tests/test_regression.py b/numpy/core/tests/test_regression.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 from os import path
 from io import BytesIO
 from itertools import chain
+import pickle
 
 import numpy as np
 from numpy.testing import (
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@
         _assert_valid_refcount, HAS_REFCOUNT, IS_PYSTON, IS_WASM
         )
 from numpy.testing._private.utils import _no_tracing, requires_memory
-from numpy.compat import asbytes, asunicode, pickle
+from numpy._utils._convertions import asbytes, asunicode
 
 
 class TestRegression: