MNT: remove _hold shims to support basemap + cartopy

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit 489c819e3a36 · 2018-11-05T15:02:27.000-05:00
The putter was added in 3.0.1 to fix all released versions of cartopy.
The setter was added in 3.0.2 to fix basemap's handling of the API
change.

All are being removed for 3.1
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py
@@ -399,14 +399,6 @@ class _AxesBase(martist.Artist):
     _shared_y_axes = cbook.Grouper()
     _twinned_axes = cbook.Grouper()
 
-    @property
-    def _hold(self):
-        return True
-
-    @_hold.setter
-    def _hold(self, value):
-        pass
-
     def __str__(self):
         return "{0}({1[0]:g},{1[1]:g};{1[2]:g}x{1[3]:g})".format(
             type(self).__name__, self._position.bounds)
