DEP: deprecate np.testing.rand

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/testing/utils.py b/numpy/testing/utils.py
index 0c4ebe1b9..f545cd3c2 100644
--- a/numpy/testing/utils.py
+++ b/numpy/testing/utils.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ from tempfile import mkdtemp, mkstemp
 
 from .nosetester import import_nose
 from numpy.core import float32, empty, arange, array_repr, ndarray
+from numpy.lib.utils import deprecate
 
 if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
     from io import StringIO
@@ -122,6 +123,8 @@ def gisinf(x):
             raise TypeError("isinf not supported for this type")
     return st
 
+@deprecate(message="numpy.testing.rand is deprecated in numpy 1.11. "
+                   "Use numpy.random.rand instead.")
 def rand(*args):
     """Returns an array of random numbers with the given shape.