feat!: __array__ is no longer allowed on NumpyArray and EmptyArray (#…

…2997)

Co-authored-by: Angus Hollands <[email protected]>

src/awkward/contents/emptyarray.py

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 from awkward._backends.backend import Backend
 from awkward._backends.numpy import NumpyBackend
 from awkward._backends.typetracer import TypeTracerBackend
-from awkward._errors import deprecate
 from awkward._layout import maybe_posaxis
 from awkward._meta.emptymeta import EmptyMeta
 from awkward._nplikes.array_like import ArrayLike
@@ -110,13 +109,6 @@ def __copy__(self):
     def __deepcopy__(self, memo):
         return self.copy()
 
-    def __array__(self, dtype=None):
-        deprecate(
-            f"np.asarray(content) is deprecated for {type(self).__name__}. Use ak.to_numpy(content) instead",
-            version="2.6.0",
-        )
-        return numpy.empty(0, dtype=dtype)
-
     @classmethod
     def simplified(cls, *, parameters=None, backend=None):
         if not (parameters is None or len(parameters) == 0):

src/awkward/contents/numpyarray.py

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 from awkward._backends.dispatch import backend_of_obj
 from awkward._backends.numpy import NumpyBackend
 from awkward._backends.typetracer import TypeTracerBackend
-from awkward._errors import deprecate
 from awkward._layout import maybe_posaxis
 from awkward._meta.numpymeta import NumpyMeta
 from awkward._nplikes import to_nplike
@@ -166,13 +165,6 @@ def __deepcopy__(self, memo):
             parameters=copy.deepcopy(self._parameters, memo),
         )
 
-    def __array__(self, dtype=None):
-        deprecate(
-            f"np.asarray(content) is deprecated for {type(self).__name__}. Use ak.to_numpy(content) instead",
-            version="2.6.0",
-        )
-        return numpy.asarray(self._data, dtype=dtype)
-
     @classmethod
     def simplified(cls, data, *, parameters=None, backend=None):
         return cls(data, parameters=parameters, backend=backend)