CNL: remove the io.data and io.wb modules by jorisvandenbossche · Pull Request #13735 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

Hmm, didn't see that in the readme of pandas-datareader (and it's not how it is phrased in the pandas docs). Anyway, I see that your PR over there has already been merged.
As I said in the issue #13724, there was some unresolved discussion about this at the time we deprecated it and created pandas-datareader (I think @hayd was in favor of doing it like you say).

Keeping the file with the custom import error is indeed to have a more helpful error for transitioning to pandas-datareader.