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jbrockmendel opened this issue Jan 11, 2022 · 3 comments · Fixed by #49416
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DEPR: make Timestamp arguments (especially unit) keyword-only #45307

jbrockmendel opened this issue Jan 11, 2022 · 3 comments · Fixed by #49416
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jbrockmendel commented Jan 11, 2022

Looking at #31929, we can fix the specific case there, but there is a long tail of mixed-and-match positional/keyword arguments that will still be fragile. These will be easier to deal with if more of them are keyword-only, in particular unit, maybe nanosecond.

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+1, making nanosecond keyword only would fix #32526

I wouldn't mind for deprecating epoch ints + unit or strings inputs entirely in favor of pd.to_datetime

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making nanosecond keyword only would fix #32526

seems reasonable

Hard part is doing the deprecation without a giant perf hit. i.e. i dont think we can use the deprecate_nonkeyword_arguments decorator here. https://groups.google.com/g/cython-users/c/KQ4WwXWCXBA suggests there isn't an easy way to do this in cython.

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Maybe this is a candidate for a 2.0 break then? #44823

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