Added deprecation

pandas-dev · TomAugspurger · Dec 7, 2017 · Nov 14, 2017 · Nov 15, 2017 · Nov 15, 2017
commit 5ee385e9af84bb75ecd1de3e03759db7a1ddb323
diff --git a/pandas/tests/plotting/test_converter.py b/pandas/tests/plotting/test_converter.py
@@ -115,6 +115,14 @@ def test_registry_resets(self):
             for k, v in original.items():
                 units.registry[k] = v
 
+    def test_old_import_warns(self):
+        with tm.assert_produces_warning(FutureWarning) as w:
+            from pandas.tseries import converter
+            converter.register()
+
+        assert len(w)
+        assert 'pandas.plotting.register_converters' in str(w[0].message)
+
 
 class TestDateTimeConverter(object):
 

diff --git a/pandas/tseries/converter.py b/pandas/tseries/converter.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # flake8: noqa
+import warnings
 
-from pandas.plotting._converter import (register, time2num,
+from pandas.plotting._converter import (time2num,
                                        TimeConverter, TimeFormatter,
                                         PeriodConverter, get_datevalue,
                                         DatetimeConverter,
@@ -9,3 +10,12 @@
                                         MilliSecondLocator, get_finder,
                                         TimeSeries_DateLocator,
                                         TimeSeries_DateFormatter)
+
+
+def register():
+    from pandas.plotting._converter import register as register_
+    msg = ("'pandas.tseries.converter.register' has been moved and renamed to "
+           "'pandas.plotting.register_converters'. ")
+    warnings.warn(msg, FutureWarning, stacklevel=2)
+    register_()
+