This utility function is not used anywhere in Branca or Folium. It sort of requires Pandas, which is not actually a dependency of Branca. By removing this function, we can also remove that awkward import of Pandas.
This function was included in the first version, but was not used at that time as well.
It's also not included in the documentation.
I couldn't find a reference to it using Github's search function.
I think we're pretty safe to remove it, since I don't expect it will have downstream users. If there are downstream users, they can easily adopt the code themselves, since it's just a few lines.
Conengmo
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3 months ago
This utility function is not used anywhere in Branca or Folium. It sort of requires Pandas, which is not actually a dependency of Branca. By removing this function, we can also remove that awkward import of Pandas.
I think we're pretty safe to remove it, since I don't expect it will have downstream users. If there are downstream users, they can easily adopt the code themselves, since it's just a few lines.