Expire colorbar-related deprecations.

Author: anntzer

doc/api/next_api_changes/removals/22081-AL.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+colorbar defaults to stealing space from the mappable's axes rather than the current axes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Pass ``ax=plt.gca()`` to restore the previous behavior.
+
+Removal of deprecated ``colorbar`` APIs
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The following deprecated :mod:`.colorbar` APIs have been removed:
+``ColorbarPatch`` and ``colorbar_factory`` (use `.Colorbar` instead);
+``colorbar_doc``, ``colorbar_kw_doc``, ``make_axes_kw_doc``.

lib/matplotlib/colorbar.py

@@ -194,16 +194,6 @@
        _colormap_kw_doc))
 
 
-@_api.caching_module_getattr  # module-level deprecations
-class __getattr__:
-    colorbar_doc = _api.deprecated("3.4", obj_type="")(property(
-        lambda self: docstring.interpd.params["colorbar_doc"]))
-    colorbar_kw_doc = _api.deprecated("3.4", obj_type="")(property(
-        lambda self: _colormap_kw_doc))
-    make_axes_kw_doc = _api.deprecated("3.4", obj_type="")(property(
-        lambda self: _make_axes_param_doc + _make_axes_other_param_doc))
-
-
 def _set_ticks_on_axis_warn(*args, **kwargs):
     # a top level function which gets put in at the axes'
     # set_xticks and set_yticks by Colorbar.__init__.
@@ -1587,36 +1577,3 @@ def make_axes_gridspec(parent, *, location=None, orientation=None,
         aspect=aspect0,
         pad=pad)
     return cax, kwargs
-
-
-@_api.deprecated("3.4", alternative="Colorbar")
-class ColorbarPatch(Colorbar):
-    pass
-
-
-@_api.deprecated("3.4", alternative="Colorbar")
-def colorbar_factory(cax, mappable, **kwargs):
-    """
-    Create a colorbar on the given axes for the given mappable.
-
-    .. note::
-        This is a low-level function to turn an existing axes into a colorbar
-        axes.  Typically, you'll want to use `~.Figure.colorbar` instead, which
-        automatically handles creation and placement of a suitable axes as
-        well.
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    cax : `~matplotlib.axes.Axes`
-        The `~.axes.Axes` to turn into a colorbar.
-    mappable : `~matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable`
-        The mappable to be described by the colorbar.
-    **kwargs
-        Keyword arguments are passed to the respective colorbar class.
-
-    Returns
-    -------
-    `.Colorbar`
-        The created colorbar instance.
-    """
-    return Colorbar(cax, mappable, **kwargs)

lib/matplotlib/figure.py

@@ -1129,15 +1129,7 @@ def colorbar(
             self, mappable, cax=None, ax=None, use_gridspec=True, **kwargs):
         """%(colorbar_doc)s"""
         if ax is None:
-            ax = self.gca()
-            if (hasattr(mappable, "axes") and ax is not mappable.axes
-                    and cax is None):
-                _api.warn_deprecated(
-                    "3.4", message="Starting from Matplotlib 3.6, colorbar() "
-                    "will steal space from the mappable's axes, rather than "
-                    "from the current axes, to place the colorbar.  To "
-                    "silence this warning, explicitly pass the 'ax' argument "
-                    "to colorbar().")
+            ax = getattr(mappable, "axes", self.gca())
 
         # Store the value of gca so that we can set it back later on.
         if cax is None: