1 files changed, 2 insertions, 89 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/ma/core.py b/numpy/ma/core.py
index 95b799f6d..bb3788c9a 100644
--- a/numpy/ma/core.py
+++ b/numpy/ma/core.py
@@ -59,14 +59,14 @@ __all__ = [
     'choose', 'clip', 'common_fill_value', 'compress', 'compressed',
     'concatenate', 'conjugate', 'convolve', 'copy', 'correlate', 'cos', 'cosh',
     'count', 'cumprod', 'cumsum', 'default_fill_value', 'diag', 'diagonal',
-    'diff', 'divide', 'dump', 'dumps', 'empty', 'empty_like', 'equal', 'exp',
+    'diff', 'divide', 'empty', 'empty_like', 'equal', 'exp',
     'expand_dims', 'fabs', 'filled', 'fix_invalid', 'flatten_mask',
     'flatten_structured_array', 'floor', 'floor_divide', 'fmod',
     'frombuffer', 'fromflex', 'fromfunction', 'getdata', 'getmask',
     'getmaskarray', 'greater', 'greater_equal', 'harden_mask', 'hypot',
     'identity', 'ids', 'indices', 'inner', 'innerproduct', 'isMA',
     'isMaskedArray', 'is_mask', 'is_masked', 'isarray', 'left_shift',
-    'less', 'less_equal', 'load', 'loads', 'log', 'log10', 'log2',
+    'less', 'less_equal', 'log', 'log10', 'log2',
     'logical_and', 'logical_not', 'logical_or', 'logical_xor', 'make_mask',
     'make_mask_descr', 'make_mask_none', 'mask_or', 'masked',
     'masked_array', 'masked_equal', 'masked_greater',
@@ -7886,93 +7886,6 @@ def _pickle_warn(method):
         stacklevel=3)
 
 
-def dump(a, F):
-    """
-    Pickle a masked array to a file.
-
-    This is a wrapper around ``cPickle.dump``.
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    a : MaskedArray
-        The array to be pickled.
-    F : str or file-like object
-        The file to pickle `a` to. If a string, the full path to the file.
-
-    """
-    _pickle_warn('dump')
-    if not hasattr(F, 'readline'):
-        with open(F, 'w') as F:
-            pickle.dump(a, F)
-    else:
-        pickle.dump(a, F)
-
-
-def dumps(a):
-    """
-    Return a string corresponding to the pickling of a masked array.
-
-    This is a wrapper around ``cPickle.dumps``.
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    a : MaskedArray
-        The array for which the string representation of the pickle is
-        returned.
-
-    """
-    _pickle_warn('dumps')
-    return pickle.dumps(a)
-
-
-def load(F):
-    """
-    Wrapper around ``cPickle.load`` which accepts either a file-like object
-    or a filename.
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    F : str or file
-        The file or file name to load.
-
-    See Also
-    --------
-    dump : Pickle an array
-
-    Notes
-    -----
-    This is different from `numpy.load`, which does not use cPickle but loads
-    the NumPy binary .npy format.
-
-    """
-    _pickle_warn('load')
-    if not hasattr(F, 'readline'):
-        with open(F, 'r') as F:
-            return pickle.load(F)
-    else:
-        return pickle.load(F)
-
-
-def loads(strg):
-    """
-    Load a pickle from the current string.
-
-    The result of ``cPickle.loads(strg)`` is returned.
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    strg : str
-        The string to load.
-
-    See Also
-    --------
-    dumps : Return a string corresponding to the pickling of a masked array.
-
-    """
-    _pickle_warn('loads')
-    return pickle.loads(strg)
-
-
 def fromfile(file, dtype=float, count=-1, sep=''):
     raise NotImplementedError(
         "fromfile() not yet implemented for a MaskedArray.")