DEPR: remove legacy pd.TimeSeries class in favor of pd.Series

xref pandas-dev#10890

Author: jreback

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt

@@ -122,6 +122,16 @@ Other enhancements
 Backwards incompatible API changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
+.. _whatsnew.api_breaking.io_compat
+
+Pickle and HDF5 compat requires >= 0.13.0
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+``pd.TimeSeries`` was deprecated officially in 0.17.0, though has only been an alias since 0.13.0. It has
+been dropped in favor of ``pd.Series``.
+
+This *may* cause pickles / HDF5 files that were created with the ``pd.TimeSeries`` to become unreadable. (:issue:``).
+
 .. _whatsnew.api_breaking.index_map
 
 Map on Index types now return other Index types
@@ -273,7 +283,6 @@ Removal of prior version deprecations/changes
 
 
 
-
 .. _whatsnew_0200.performance:
 
 Performance Improvements

pandas/api/tests/test_api.py

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ class TestPDApi(Base, tm.TestCase):
                'TimedeltaIndex', 'Timestamp']
 
     # these are already deprecated; awaiting removal
-    deprecated_classes = ['TimeSeries', 'WidePanel',
+    deprecated_classes = ['WidePanel',
                           'SparseTimeSeries', 'Panel4D',
                           'SparseList']
 

pandas/core/api.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 from pandas.core.index import (Index, CategoricalIndex, Int64Index,
                                RangeIndex, Float64Index, MultiIndex)
 
-from pandas.core.series import Series, TimeSeries
+from pandas.core.series import Series
 from pandas.core.frame import DataFrame
 from pandas.core.panel import Panel, WidePanel
 from pandas.core.panel4d import Panel4D

pandas/core/series.py

@@ -2980,15 +2980,6 @@ def create_from_value(value, index, dtype):
     return subarr
 
 
-# backwards compatiblity
-class TimeSeries(Series):
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        # deprecation TimeSeries, #10890
-        warnings.warn("TimeSeries is deprecated. Please use Series",
-                      FutureWarning, stacklevel=2)
-
-        super(TimeSeries, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Add plotting methods to Series
 

pandas/io/pytables.py

@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@ class DuplicateWarning(Warning):
 
     Series: u('series'),
     SparseSeries: u('sparse_series'),
-    pd.TimeSeries: u('series'),
     DataFrame: u('frame'),
     SparseDataFrame: u('sparse_frame'),
     Panel: u('wide'),
@@ -173,7 +172,6 @@ class DuplicateWarning(Warning):
 
 # storer class map
 _STORER_MAP = {
-    u('TimeSeries'): 'LegacySeriesFixed',
     u('Series'): 'LegacySeriesFixed',
     u('DataFrame'): 'LegacyFrameFixed',
     u('DataMatrix'): 'LegacyFrameFixed',