Remove mlab.FormatDatetime

dstansby · dstansby · commit 197228dc3adb · 2018-09-29T11:05:08.000+01:00
diff --git a/doc/api/next_api_changes/2018-09-18-DS.rst b/doc/api/next_api_changes/2018-09-18-DS.rst
@@ -43,4 +43,5 @@ in Matplotlib 2.2 has been removed. See below for a list:
 - `mlab.rec2text` (use numpy.recarray.tofile instead)
 - `mlab.csvformat_factory`
 - `mlab.get_formatd`
+- `mlab.FormatDatetime` (use datetime.strftime instead)
 - `mlab.donothing_callback`
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py b/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py
@@ -2276,16 +2276,6 @@ def fromstr(self, x):
         return dateutil.parser.parse(x).date()
 
 
-@cbook.deprecated("2.2", alternative='datetime.strftime')
-class FormatDatetime(FormatDate):
-    def __init__(self, fmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'):
-        FormatDate.__init__(self, fmt)
-
-    def fromstr(self, x):
-        import dateutil.parser
-        return dateutil.parser.parse(x)
-
-
 class GaussianKDE(object):
     """
     Representation of a kernel-density estimate using Gaussian kernels.
