Remove deprecated function make_str (#5739)

* Remove deprecated function make_str

* [skip ci] rm from reference guide.

Co-authored-by: Ross Barnowski <rossbar@berkeley.edu>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/networkx/utils/misc.py b/networkx/utils/misc.py
index 7b55ca31..edf8f61d 100644
--- a/networkx/utils/misc.py
+++ b/networkx/utils/misc.py
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ __all__ = [
     "flatten",
     "make_list_of_ints",
     "is_list_of_ints",
-    "make_str",
     "generate_unique_node",
     "default_opener",
     "dict_to_numpy_array",
@@ -154,17 +153,6 @@ def is_list_of_ints(intlist):
     return True
 
 
-def make_str(x):
-    """Returns the string representation of t.
-
-    .. deprecated:: 2.6
-        This is deprecated and will be removed in NetworkX v3.0.
-    """
-    msg = "make_str is deprecated and will be removed in 3.0. Use str instead."
-    warnings.warn(msg, DeprecationWarning)
-    return str(x)
-
-
 def generate_unique_node():
     """Generate a unique node label.
 
diff --git a/networkx/utils/tests/test_misc.py b/networkx/utils/tests/test_misc.py
index 96ab5452..dd3c35f2 100644
--- a/networkx/utils/tests/test_misc.py
+++ b/networkx/utils/tests/test_misc.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ from networkx.utils import (
     groups,
     iterable,
     make_list_of_ints,
-    make_str,
     pairwise,
     powerlaw_sequence,
     to_tuple,
@@ -92,20 +91,6 @@ def test_random_number_distribution():
     z = discrete_sequence(20, distribution=[0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3])
 
 
-def test_make_str_with_bytes():
-    x = "qualité"
-    y = make_str(x)
-    assert isinstance(y, str)
-    assert len(y) == 7
-
-
-def test_make_str_with_unicode():
-    x = "qualité"
-    y = make_str(x)
-    assert isinstance(y, str)
-    assert len(y) == 7
-
-
 class TestNumpyArray:
     @classmethod
     def setup_class(cls):