DEPR: Rename reps to repeats in Series.repeat (pandas-dev#22417)

xref pandas-devgh-14645.

Author: gfyoung

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.txt

@@ -517,6 +517,7 @@ Removal of prior version deprecations/changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 - The ``LongPanel`` and ``WidePanel`` classes have been removed (:issue:`10892`)
+- :meth:`Series.repeat` has renamed the ``reps`` argument to ``repeats`` (:issue:`14645`)
 - Several private functions were removed from the (non-public) module ``pandas.core.common`` (:issue:`22001`)
 - Removal of the previously deprecated module ``pandas.core.datetools`` (:issue:`14105`, :issue:`14094`)
 -

pandas/core/series.py

@@ -1011,7 +1011,6 @@ def _set_values(self, key, value):
         self._data = self._data.setitem(indexer=key, value=value)
         self._maybe_update_cacher()
 
-    @deprecate_kwarg(old_arg_name='reps', new_arg_name='repeats')
     def repeat(self, repeats, *args, **kwargs):
         """
         Repeat elements of an Series. Refer to `numpy.ndarray.repeat`

pandas/tests/series/test_analytics.py

@@ -1344,10 +1344,6 @@ def test_repeat(self):
         exp = Series(s.values.repeat(5), index=s.index.values.repeat(5))
         assert_series_equal(reps, exp)
 
-        with tm.assert_produces_warning(FutureWarning):
-            result = s.repeat(reps=5)
-            assert_series_equal(result, exp)
-
         to_rep = [2, 3, 4]
         reps = s.repeat(to_rep)
         exp = Series(s.values.repeat(to_rep),