DEPR: Remove pd.load/pd.save aliases in favor of pd.to_pickle/pd.read_pickle, #3787

Author: jreback

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt

@@ -712,6 +712,7 @@ Removal of prior version deprecations/changes
 - Remove ``kind`` in ``read_excel/ExcelFile`` as its unused (:issue:`4712`)
 - Remove ``infer_type`` keyword from ``pd.read_html`` as its unused (:issue:`4770`, :issue:`7032`)
 - Remove ``offset`` and ``timeRule`` keywords from ``Series.tshift/shift``, in favor of ``freq`` (:issue:`4853`, :issue:`4864`)
+- Remove ``pd.load/pd.save`` aliases in favor of ``pd.to_pickle/pd.read_pickle`` (:issue:`3787`)
 
 .. _whatsnew_0170.performance:
 

pandas/core/api.py

@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 from pandas.tseries.period import Period, PeriodIndex
 
 # legacy
-from pandas.core.common import save, load  # deprecated, remove in 0.13
 import pandas.core.datetools as datetools
 
 from pandas.core.config import (get_option, set_option, reset_option,

pandas/core/common.py

@@ -3313,46 +3313,6 @@ def console_encode(object, **kwds):
     return pprint_thing_encoded(object,
                                 get_option("display.encoding"))
 
-
-def load(path):  # TODO remove in 0.13
-    """
-    Load pickled pandas object (or any other pickled object) from the specified
-    file path
-
-    Warning: Loading pickled data received from untrusted sources can be
-    unsafe. See: http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/pickle.html
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    path : string
-        File path
-
-    Returns
-    -------
-    unpickled : type of object stored in file
-    """
-    import warnings
-    warnings.warn("load is deprecated, use read_pickle", FutureWarning)
-    from pandas.io.pickle import read_pickle
-    return read_pickle(path)
-
-
-def save(obj, path):  # TODO remove in 0.13
-    """
-    Pickle (serialize) object to input file path
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    obj : any object
-    path : string
-        File path
-    """
-    import warnings
-    warnings.warn("save is deprecated, use obj.to_pickle", FutureWarning)
-    from pandas.io.pickle import to_pickle
-    return to_pickle(obj, path)
-
-
 def _maybe_match_name(a, b):
     a_has = hasattr(a, 'name')
     b_has = hasattr(b, 'name')

pandas/core/generic.py

@@ -1006,20 +1006,6 @@ def to_pickle(self, path):
         from pandas.io.pickle import to_pickle
         return to_pickle(self, path)
 
-    def save(self, path):  # TODO remove in 0.14
-        "Deprecated. Use to_pickle instead"
-        import warnings
-        from pandas.io.pickle import to_pickle
-        warnings.warn("save is deprecated, use to_pickle", FutureWarning)
-        return to_pickle(self, path)
-
-    def load(self, path):  # TODO remove in 0.14
-        "Deprecated. Use read_pickle instead."
-        import warnings
-        from pandas.io.pickle import read_pickle
-        warnings.warn("load is deprecated, use pd.read_pickle", FutureWarning)
-        return read_pickle(path)
-
     def to_clipboard(self, excel=None, sep=None, **kwargs):
         """
         Attempt to write text representation of object to the system clipboard