ASV: use pandas.util.testing for back compat

[jorisvandenbossche]

cc @TomAugspurger I propose to keep the old deprecated imports (as long as they are not removed), so the benchmarks can still be run when eg doing a comparison of 0.25 with current master.

[jorisvandenbossche]

Actually, maybe doing a try/except is a better option (this can be put in pandas_vb_common.py, we have something similar for lib)

[TomAugspurger]

A try / except sounds better to me, so we don't have the warnings in the logs.

[jreback]

A try / except sounds better to me, so we don't have the warnings in the logs.

maybe we just filter out FutureWarnings from asvs? (generally)

[TomAugspurger]

Though we'll need to make the changes at some point, for when we enforce the deprecation. Don't have a preference.

[jorisvandenbossche]

Though we'll need to make the changes at some point, for when we enforce the deprecation.

When using the try/except, that is in principle not needed (until the point we want to clean up compatibility with older pandas versions in the benchmarks of course, but that doesn't necessarily need be at the same time as when enforcing the deprecation)

[jreback]

thanks @jorisvandenbossche

[jorisvandenbossche]

@jreback given the discussion, this was not really ready

[jorisvandenbossche]

See #30810 for a PR based on the discussion above