remove deprecated is_floating_dtype

pandas-dev · jreback · Nov 27, 2018 · Nov 25, 2018 · Nov 25, 2018 · Nov 25, 2018
commit 714c2873443a27a8e411922a4a39efd6ab976ac5
diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.rst
@@ -1124,6 +1124,7 @@ Removal of prior version deprecations/changes
 - :meth:`SparseSeries.to_dense` has dropped the ``sparse_only`` parameter (:issue:`14686`)
 - :meth:`DataFrame.astype` and :meth:`Series.astype` have renamed the ``raise_on_error`` argument to ``errors`` (:issue:`14967`)
 - ``is_sequence``, ``is_any_int_dtype``, and ``is_floating_dtype`` have been removed from ``pandas.api.types`` (:issue:`16163`, :issue:`16189`)
+- ``is_floating_dtype`` has been removed (:issue:`????`)
 
 .. _whatsnew_0240.performance:
 

diff --git a/pandas/core/dtypes/common.py b/pandas/core/dtypes/common.py
@@ -1619,22 +1619,6 @@ def is_float_dtype(arr_or_dtype):
     return issubclass(tipo, np.floating)
 
 
-def is_floating_dtype(arr_or_dtype):
-    """Check whether the provided array or dtype is an instance of
-    numpy's float dtype.
-
-    .. deprecated:: 0.20.0
-
-    Unlike, `is_float_dtype`, this check is a lot stricter, as it requires
-    `isinstance` of `np.floating` and not `issubclass`.
-    """
-
-    if arr_or_dtype is None:
-        return False
-    tipo = _get_dtype_type(arr_or_dtype)
-    return isinstance(tipo, np.floating)
-
-
 def is_bool_dtype(arr_or_dtype):
    """
     Check whether the provided array or dtype is of a boolean dtype.