DEPR: Deprecate pandas.np module

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.0.0.rst

@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ Other enhancements
   (:meth:`~DataFrame.to_parquet` / :func:`read_parquet`) using the `'pyarrow'` engine
   now preserve those data types with pyarrow >= 1.0.0 (:issue:`20612`).
 - The ``partition_cols`` argument in :meth:`DataFrame.to_parquet` now accepts a string (:issue:`27117`)
+- The pandas.np submodule is now deprecated. Import numpy directly instead(:issue:`30296`)
 - :func:`to_parquet` now appropriately handles the ``schema`` argument for user defined schemas in the pyarrow engine. (:issue: `30270`)
 - DataFrame constructor preserve `ExtensionArray` dtype with `ExtensionArray` (:issue:`11363`)
 

pandas/__init__.py

@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@
     to_datetime,
     to_timedelta,
     # misc
-    np,
     Grouper,
     factorize,
     unique,
@@ -211,6 +210,19 @@ class Panel:
                 pass
 
             return Panel
+
+        elif name == "np":
+
+            warnings.warn(
+                "The pandas.np module is deprecated and will be removed from pandas in a future version. "
+                "Import numpy directly instead",
+                FutureWarning,
+                stacklevel=2,
+            )
+            import numpy as np
+
+            return np
+
         elif name in {"SparseSeries", "SparseDataFrame"}:
             warnings.warn(
                 "The {} class is removed from pandas. Accessing it from "

pandas/core/api.py

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 # flake8: noqa
 
-import numpy as np
-
 from pandas._libs import NaT, Period, Timedelta, Timestamp
 from pandas._libs.missing import NA