Refs #22218 -- Removed conf.urls.patterns() per deprecation timeline.

docs/ref/urls.txt

@@ -4,77 +4,6 @@
 
 .. module:: django.conf.urls
 
-patterns()
-----------
-
-.. function:: patterns(prefix, pattern_description, ...)
-
-.. deprecated:: 1.8
-
-    ``urlpatterns`` should be a plain list of :func:`django.conf.urls.url`
-    instances instead.
-
-A function that takes a prefix, and an arbitrary number of URL patterns, and
-returns a list of URL patterns in the format Django needs.
-
-The first argument to ``patterns()`` is a string ``prefix``. Here's the example
-URLconf from the :doc:`Django overview </intro/overview>`::
-
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
-
-    urlpatterns = patterns('',
-        url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/$', 'news.views.year_archive'),
-        url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/$', 'news.views.month_archive'),
-        url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]+)/$', 'news.views.article_detail'),
-    )
-
-In this example, each view has a common prefix -- ``'news.views'``.
-Instead of typing that out for each entry in ``urlpatterns``, you can use the
-first argument to the ``patterns()`` function to specify a prefix to apply to
-each view function.
-
-With this in mind, the above example can be written more concisely as::
-
-    from django.conf.urls import patterns, url
-
-    urlpatterns = patterns('news.views',
-        url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/$', 'year_archive'),
-        url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/$', 'month_archive'),
-        url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]+)/$', 'article_detail'),
-    )
-
-Note that you don't put a trailing dot (``"."``) in the prefix. Django puts
-that in automatically.
-
-The remaining arguments should be tuples in this format::
-
-    (regular expression, Python callback function [, optional_dictionary [, optional_name]])
-
-The ``optional_dictionary`` and ``optional_name`` parameters are described in
-:ref:`Passing extra options to view functions <views-extra-options>`.
-
-.. note::
-    Because ``patterns()`` is a function call, it accepts a maximum of 255
-    arguments (URL patterns, in this case). This is a limit for all Python
-    function calls. This is rarely a problem in practice, because you'll
-    typically structure your URL patterns modularly by using ``include()``
-    sections. However, on the off-chance you do hit the 255-argument limit,
-    realize that ``patterns()`` returns a Python list, so you can split up the
-    construction of the list.
-
-    ::
-
-        urlpatterns = patterns('',
-            ...
-            )
-        urlpatterns += patterns('',
-            ...
-            )
-
-    Python lists have unlimited size, so there's no limit to how many URL
-    patterns you can construct. The only limit is that you can only create 254
-    at a time (the 255th argument is the initial prefix argument).
-
 static()
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