On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 1:09 PM Eric Wieser <wieser.eric+nu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Just a heads up that in https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15867 I plan > to deprecate ndarray.tostring(), which is just a confusing way to spell > ndarray.tobytes(). > > This function has been documented as a compatibility alias since NumPy > 1.9, but never emitted a warning upon use. > Given array.array.tostring() has been warning as far back as Python 3.1, > it seems like we should follow suit. > > In order to reduce the impact of such a deprecation, I’ve filed the > necessary scipy PR: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/11755. > It’s unlikely we’ll remove this function entirely any time soon, but the > act of deprecating it may cause a few failing CI runs in projects where > warnings are turned into errors. > +1 agree with the deprecation, and with making it a long one given the handful of uses in Matplotlib and several handfuls in SciPy. Cheers, Ralf
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