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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/ma/core.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/ma/core.py | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/ma/core.py b/numpy/ma/core.py index e24cb956c..1ab24b228 100644 --- a/numpy/ma/core.py +++ b/numpy/ma/core.py @@ -5954,10 +5954,17 @@ class MaskedArray(ndarray): return result.tolist() def tostring(self, fill_value=None, order='C'): + r""" + A compatibility alias for `tobytes`, with exactly the same behavior. + + Despite its name, it returns `bytes` not `str`\ s. + + .. deprecated:: 1.19.0 """ - This function is a compatibility alias for tobytes. Despite its name it - returns bytes not strings. - """ + # 2020-03-30, Numpy 1.19.0 + warnings.warn( + "tostring() is deprecated. Use tobytes() instead.", + DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2) return self.tobytes(fill_value, order=order) |