Added deprecation warning for numpy.testing.ParametricTestCase

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/testing/parametric.py b/numpy/testing/parametric.py
index 7ff68f260..e6f2b3390 100644
--- a/numpy/testing/parametric.py
+++ b/numpy/testing/parametric.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ unittest itself changes in the future.  I have only tested this with Python
 __docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
 
 import unittest
+import warnings
 
 class _ParametricTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     """TestCase subclass with support for parametric tests.
@@ -59,6 +60,11 @@ class _ParametricTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     #: to mutate the state you are using, which will alter later tests).
     _shareParTestPrefix = 'testsp'
 
+    def __init__(self, methodName = 'runTest'):
+    	warnings.warn("ParametricTestCase will be removed in the next NumPy "
+                      "release", DeprecationWarning)
+	unittest.TestCase.__init__(self, methodName)
+
     def exec_test(self,test,args,result):
         """Execute a single test.  Returns a success boolean"""