Dep: Deprecation of float index in linespace

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/core/function_base.py b/numpy/core/function_base.py
index d83af9911..42604ec3f 100644
--- a/numpy/core/function_base.py
+++ b/numpy/core/function_base.py
@@ -18,18 +18,6 @@ array_function_dispatch = functools.partial(
     overrides.array_function_dispatch, module='numpy')
 
 
-def _index_deprecate(i, stacklevel=2):
-    try:
-        i = operator.index(i)
-    except TypeError:
-        msg = ("object of type {} cannot be safely interpreted as "
-               "an integer.".format(type(i)))
-        i = int(i)
-        stacklevel += 1
-        warnings.warn(msg, DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=stacklevel)
-    return i
-
-
 def _linspace_dispatcher(start, stop, num=None, endpoint=None, retstep=None,
                          dtype=None, axis=None):
     return (start, stop)
@@ -125,8 +113,13 @@ def linspace(start, stop, num=50, endpoint=True, retstep=False, dtype=None,
     >>> plt.show()
 
     """
-    # 2016-02-25, 1.12
-    num = _index_deprecate(num)
+    try:
+        num = operator.index(num)
+    except TypeError:
+        raise TypeError(
+            "object of type {} cannot be safely interpreted as an integer."
+                .format(type(num)))
+
     if num < 0:
         raise ValueError("Number of samples, %s, must be non-negative." % num)
     div = (num - 1) if endpoint else num