remove needless check_modified()

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/identity.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/identity.py
index 4c1618df9..69ca31eda 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/identity.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/identity.py
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ class StrongInstanceDict(IdentityMap):
         """prune unreferenced, non-dirty states."""
         
         ref_count = len(self)
-        dirty = [s.obj() for s in self.all_states() if s.check_modified()]
+        dirty = [s.obj() for s in self.all_states() if s.modified]
 
         # work around http://bugs.python.org/issue6149
         keepers = weakref.WeakValueDictionary()
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/state.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/state.py
index 3e80b703f..8dd6bd309 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/state.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/orm/state.py
@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@ class InstanceState(object):
     def sort_key(self):
         return self.key and self.key[1] or (self.insert_order, )
 
-    def check_modified(self):
-        # TODO: deprecate
-        return self.modified
-
     def initialize_instance(*mixed, **kwargs):
         self, instance, args = mixed[0], mixed[1], mixed[2:]
         manager = self.manager