CLN: Removes module pandas.json (pandas-dev#22737)

Author: vitoriahmc

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.txt

@@ -577,6 +577,7 @@ Removal of prior version deprecations/changes
 - Removed the ``pandas.formats.style`` shim for :class:`pandas.io.formats.style.Styler` (:issue:`16059`)
 - :meth:`Categorical.searchsorted` and :meth:`Series.searchsorted` have renamed the ``v`` argument to ``value`` (:issue:`14645`)
 - :meth:`TimedeltaIndex.searchsorted`, :meth:`DatetimeIndex.searchsorted`, and :meth:`PeriodIndex.searchsorted` have renamed the ``key`` argument to ``value`` (:issue:`14645`)
+- Removal of the previously deprecated module ``pandas.json`` (:issue:`19944`)
 
 .. _whatsnew_0240.performance:
 

pandas/__init__.py

@@ -61,9 +61,6 @@
 # extension module deprecations
 from pandas.util._depr_module import _DeprecatedModule
 
-json = _DeprecatedModule(deprmod='pandas.json',
-                         moved={'dumps': 'pandas.io.json.dumps',
-                                'loads': 'pandas.io.json.loads'})
 parser = _DeprecatedModule(deprmod='pandas.parser',
                            removals=['na_values'],
                            moved={'CParserError': 'pandas.errors.ParserError'})

pandas/json.py

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class TestPDApi(Base):
            'util', 'options', 'io']
 
     # these are already deprecated; awaiting removal
-    deprecated_modules = ['parser', 'json', 'lib', 'tslib']
+    deprecated_modules = ['parser', 'lib', 'tslib']
 
     # misc
     misc = ['IndexSlice', 'NaT']
@@ -173,13 +173,6 @@ def test_get_store(self):
                 s.close()
 
 
-class TestJson(object):
-
-    def test_deprecation_access_func(self):
-        with catch_warnings(record=True):
-            pd.json.dumps([])
-
-
 class TestParser(object):
 
     def test_deprecation_access_func(self):