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name: Flag for discontinued
about: Suggest an idea for this project
title: ''
labels: ''
assignees: ''

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**What should be changed**

Discontinued means a function, method or argument is going to be deleted entirely from the code base and is not being replaced. 

What function, method or argument should be marked for removal?

What is the full module path to the attribute?

**Why**

Why should it be discontinued?

**How much notice**

How much time should the community be given to response to this notice? Specify as the number of months (*x*) before the capability will be removed. Leave blank if not known.

**Guidelines for deprecation**

As this is a function that will be removed, see [dev guidelines for deprecation](https://github.com/cogent3/c3dev/wiki/Deprecating-Code) of code. Indicate the limiting version (for when the old function will be removed) as <current year>.<PR month + *x*> where *x* is defined above.  
