Remove mlab.FormatDate

dstansby · dstansby · commit ff137b6feaed · 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
@@ -44,4 +44,5 @@ in Matplotlib 2.2 has been removed. See below for a list:
 - `mlab.csvformat_factory`
 - `mlab.get_formatd`
 - `mlab.FormatDatetime` (use datetime.strftime instead)
+- `mlab.FormatDate` (use date.strftime instead)
 - `mlab.donothing_callback`
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py b/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py
@@ -2258,24 +2258,6 @@ def __init__(self, precision=4):
         FormatFloat.__init__(self, precision, scale=1e-6)
 
 
-@cbook.deprecated("2.2", alternative='date.strftime')
-class FormatDate(FormatObj):
-    def __init__(self, fmt):
-        self.fmt = fmt
-
-    def __hash__(self):
-        return hash((self.__class__, self.fmt))
-
-    def toval(self, x):
-        if x is None:
-            return 'None'
-        return x.strftime(self.fmt)
-
-    def fromstr(self, x):
-        import dateutil.parser
-        return dateutil.parser.parse(x).date()
-
-
 class GaussianKDE(object):
     """
     Representation of a kernel-density estimate using Gaussian kernels.
