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Deprecate Axes.arrow/pyplot.arrow #20387

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Axes.arrow/pyplot.arrow generates a FancyArrow, which has a rather awkward API (#12768); we typically suggest to use Axes.annotate/pyplot.annotate instead (even the docstring of arrow() does so!). We may want to keep FancyArrow around for backcompat (it is simple to convert calls to arrow() to ax.add_patch(FancyArrow(<the same args>))), but at least we should consider deprecating the toplevel arrow() function, which is just a bad trap for any new users.

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  • Matplotlib version (import matplotlib; print(matplotlib.__version__)): 3.4.x
  • Matplotlib backend (print(matplotlib.get_backend())):
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