Deprecate private interfaces #515
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Per my comments in pandas-dev/pandas#18141, I think that it is not particularly expensive to preserve some of the private interface, with an explicit deprecation warning.
The main question I have here is whether we should use
DeprecationWarning, which is not visible by default in Python 2.7+, or if we should use something more visible, like our own custom warning class that is visible, or possibly make some sort of context manager that temporarily enablesDeprecationWarning.Kinda unfortunate that
DeprecationWarningwas disabled by default, since that encourages libraries to do shit like what I just described, but it is what it is.