exclude deprecated members from documentation (there are just too many), this can be undone once we've removed the old API (also cleaned up docs/conf.py a little bit). fixes #317

docs/conf.py

@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
 # All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
 # serve to show the default.
 
-import sys, os, datetime
+import sys
+import os
+import datetime
 
 # If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
 # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
@@ -276,3 +278,16 @@ autodoc_default_flags = []
 intersphinx_mapping = {
     'http://docs.python.org/': None,
 }
+
+
+def skip_deprecated(app, what, name, obj, skip, options):
+    """
+    All attributes containing a deprecated note shouldn't be documented
+    anymore. This makes it even clearer that they are not supported anymore.
+    """
+    doc = obj.__doc__
+    return skip or doc and '.. deprecated::' in doc
+
+
+def setup(app):
+    app.connect('autodoc-skip-member', skip_deprecated)