Deprecate Locator.autoscale.

anntzer · anntzer · commit 8236855db5b9 · 2019-02-18T20:56:00.000+01:00
Note that this likely indicates that the dates Locators need new
implementations of view_limits, as they appear to never have been
updated to use the "new" (post-2008) API.
diff --git a/doc/api/next_api_changes/2019-02-19-AL.rst b/doc/api/next_api_changes/2019-02-19-AL.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Deprecations
+````````````
+
+The unused `Locator.autoscale()` method is deprecated (pass the axis limits to
+`Locator.view_limits()` instead).
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/dates.py b/lib/matplotlib/dates.py
@@ -1304,6 +1304,7 @@ def get_unit_generic(freq):
     def _get_interval(self):
         return self.rule._rrule._interval
 
+    @cbook.deprecated("3.1")
     def autoscale(self):
         """
         Set the view limits to include the data range.
@@ -1463,6 +1464,7 @@ def _get_unit(self):
         else:
             return RRuleLocator.get_unit_generic(self._freq)
 
+    @cbook.deprecated("3.1")
     def autoscale(self):
         'Try to choose the view limits intelligently.'
         dmin, dmax = self.datalim_to_dt()
@@ -1641,6 +1643,7 @@ def tick_values(self, vmin, vmax):
 
             ticks.append(dt)
 
+    @cbook.deprecated("3.1")
     def autoscale(self):
         """
         Set the view limits to include the data range.
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/projections/polar.py b/lib/matplotlib/projections/polar.py
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ def __call__(self):
         else:
             return np.deg2rad(self.base())
 
+    @cbook.deprecated("3.1")
     def autoscale(self):
         return self.base.autoscale()
 
@@ -417,6 +418,7 @@ def __call__(self):
         else:
             return [tick for tick in self.base() if tick > rorigin]
 
+    @cbook.deprecated("3.1")
     def autoscale(self):
         return self.base.autoscale()
 
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/ticker.py b/lib/matplotlib/ticker.py
@@ -1475,6 +1475,7 @@ def view_limits(self, vmin, vmax):
         """
         return mtransforms.nonsingular(vmin, vmax)
 
+    @cbook.deprecated("3.1")
     def autoscale(self):
         """autoscale the view limits"""
         return self.view_limits(*self.axis.get_view_interval())
