Remove remove_dates_from_title

Author: mcarans

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ repos:
       - id: check-ast
 
   - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-    rev: v0.14.13
+    rev: v0.14.14
     hooks:
       # Run the linter.
       - id: ruff-check

documentation/index.md

@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ The library has detailed API documentation which can be found in the menu at the
 
 
 ## Breaking Changes
+From 6.6.5, removed DatasetTitleHelper class and Dataset method remove_dates_from_title
+
 From 6.6.0, Python 3.10 or later is required
 
 From 6.5.7, get_size_and_hash moved to HDX Python Utilities

pyproject.toml

@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "hdx-python-country>=4.0.1",
     "hdx-python-utilities>=4.0.4",
     "makefun",
-    "quantulum3",
     "requests",
 ]
 
@@ -57,7 +56,7 @@ dev = [
     "pytest-cov",
     "pytest-mock",
     "pre-commit",
-    "ruff==0.14.13",
+    "ruff==0.14.14",
 ]
 
 [project.urls]

src/hdx/api/utilities/dataset_title_helper.py

@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
 import hdx.data.vocabulary as vocabulary
 from hdx.api.configuration import Configuration
 from hdx.api.locations import Locations
-from hdx.api.utilities.dataset_title_helper import DatasetTitleHelper
 from hdx.api.utilities.date_helper import DateHelper
 from hdx.api.utilities.filestore_helper import FilestoreHelper
 from hdx.data.hdxobject import HDXError, HDXObject
@@ -2379,33 +2378,6 @@ def get_api_url(self, prefer_name: bool = True) -> str | None:
             return None
         return f"{self.configuration.get_hdx_site_url()}/api/3/action/package_show?id={name_or_id}"
 
-    def remove_dates_from_title(
-        self, change_title: bool = True, set_time_period: bool = False
-    ) -> list[tuple[datetime, datetime]]:
-        """Remove dates from dataset title returning sorted the dates that were found in
-        title. The title in the dataset metadata will be changed by default. The
-        dataset's metadata field time period will not be changed by default, but if
-        set_time_period is True, then the range with the lowest start date will be used
-        to set the time period field.
-
-        Args:
-            change_title: Whether to change the dataset title. Defaults to True.
-            set_time_period: Whether to set time period from date or range in title. Defaults to False.
-
-        Returns:
-            Date ranges found in title
-        """
-        if "title" not in self.data:
-            raise HDXError("Dataset has no title!")
-        title = self.data["title"]
-        newtitle, ranges = DatasetTitleHelper.get_dates_from_title(title)
-        if change_title:
-            self.data["title"] = newtitle
-        if set_time_period and len(ranges) != 0:
-            startdate, enddate = ranges[0]
-            self.set_time_period(startdate, enddate)
-        return ranges
-
     def generate_resource(
         self,
         folder: Path | str,