Remove deprecated spacier.components.merge_entities()

tests/spacier/test_components.py

@@ -52,23 +52,3 @@ def test_attrs_on_doc(spacy_lang, spacy_doc):
     for attr in tsc.attrs:
         assert spacy_doc._.has(attr) is True
         assert isinstance(spacy_doc._.get(attr), (int, float, dict)) is True
-
-
-def test_merge_entities_deprecation(spacy_lang):
-    doc = spacy_lang("Matthew Honnibal and Ines Montani do great work on spaCy.")
-    with pytest.warns(DeprecationWarning):
-        _ = components.merge_entities(doc)
-
-
-def test_merge_entities(spacy_lang):
-    doc1 = spacy_lang("Matthew Honnibal and Ines Montani do great work on spaCy.")
-    # (temporarily) add this other component to the pipeline
-    spacy_lang.add_pipe(components.merge_entities, after="ner")
-    doc2 = spacy_lang("Matthew Honnibal and Ines Montani do great work on spaCy.")
-    # check the key behaviors we'd expect
-    assert spacy_lang.has_pipe("merge_entities") is True
-    assert len(doc1) > len(doc2)
-    assert any(tok.text == "Matthew Honnibal" for tok in doc2)
-    assert any(tok.text == "Ines Montani" for tok in doc2)
-    # now remove this component, since we don't want it elsewhere
-    spacy_lang.remove_pipe("merge_entities")

textacy/spacier/components.py

@@ -10,10 +10,8 @@
 
 from spacy.tokens import Doc
 
-from . import utils as spacier_utils
 from .. import compat
 from .. import text_stats
-from .. import utils
 
 LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -113,36 +111,3 @@ def __call__(self, doc):
                 )
                 raise
         return doc
-
-
-def merge_entities(doc):
-    """
-    Merge named entities into single tokens in ``doc``, *in-place*.
-
-    Can be used as a stand-alone function, or as part of a spaCy language pipeline::
-
-        >>> spacy_lang = textacy.load_spacy_lang('en')
-        >>> spacy_lang.add_pipe(merge_entities, after='ner')
-        >>> doc = spacy_lang('Burton DeWilde is an entity in this sentence.')
-        >>> doc[0]
-        Burton DeWilde
-
-    Args:
-        doc (:class:`spacy.tokens.Doc`)
-
-    Returns:
-        :class:`spacy.tokens.Doc`: Input ``doc`` with entities merged.
-
-    Warning:
-        *DEPRECATED!* For equivalent functionality, use
-        :func:`spacy.pipeline.functions.merge_entities()` instead.
-        For details, see https://spacy.io/api/pipeline-functions.
-    """
-    utils.deprecated(
-        "`merge_entities()` has been deprecated! for equivalent functionality, "
-        "use :func:`spacy.pipeline.functions.merge_entities()` instead. "
-        "For details, see https://spacy.io/api/pipeline-functions.",
-        action="once",
-    )
-    spacier_utils.merge_spans(doc.ents, doc)
-    return doc