Update docstrings and remove deprecated load classmethod

spacy/tagger.pyx

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # coding: utf8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-import ujson
 from collections import defaultdict
 
 from cymem.cymem cimport Pool
@@ -15,7 +14,6 @@ from .tokens.doc cimport Doc
 from .attrs cimport TAG
 from .gold cimport GoldParse
 from .attrs cimport *
-from . import util
 
 
 cpdef enum:
@@ -108,55 +106,15 @@ cdef inline void _fill_from_token(atom_t* context, const TokenC* t) nogil:
 
 
 cdef class Tagger:
-    """
-    Annotate part-of-speech tags on Doc objects.
-    """
-    @classmethod
-    def load(cls, path, vocab, require=False):
-        """
-        Load the statistical model from the supplied path.
-
-        Arguments:
-            path (Path):
-                The path to load from.
-            vocab (Vocab):
-                The vocabulary. Must be shared by the documents to be processed.
-            require (bool):
-                Whether to raise an error if the files are not found.
-        Returns (Tagger):
-            The newly created object.
-        """
-        # TODO: Change this to expect config.json when we don't have to
-        # support old data.
-        path = util.ensure_path(path)
-        if (path / 'templates.json').exists():
-            with (path / 'templates.json').open('r', encoding='utf8') as file_:
-                templates = ujson.load(file_)
-        elif require:
-            raise IOError(
-                "Required file %s/templates.json not found when loading Tagger" % str(path))
-        else:
-            templates = cls.feature_templates
-        self = cls(vocab, model=None, feature_templates=templates)
-
-        if (path / 'model').exists():
-            self.model.load(str(path / 'model'))
-        elif require:
-            raise IOError(
-                "Required file %s/model not found when loading Tagger" % str(path))
-        return self
+    """Annotate part-of-speech tags on Doc objects."""
 
     def __init__(self, Vocab vocab, TaggerModel model=None, **cfg):
-        """
-        Create a Tagger.
+        """Create a Tagger.
 
-        Arguments:
-            vocab (Vocab):
-                The vocabulary object. Must be shared with documents to be processed.
-            model (thinc.linear.AveragedPerceptron):
-                The statistical model.
-        Returns (Tagger):
-            The newly constructed object.
+        vocab (Vocab): The vocabulary object. Must be shared with documents to
+            be processed.
+        model (thinc.linear.AveragedPerceptron): The statistical model.
+        RETURNS (Tagger): The newly constructed object.
         """
         if model is None:
             model = TaggerModel(cfg.get('features', self.feature_templates),
@@ -186,13 +144,9 @@ cdef class Tagger:
         tokens._py_tokens = [None] * tokens.length
 
     def __call__(self, Doc tokens):
-        """
-        Apply the tagger, setting the POS tags onto the Doc object.
+        """Apply the tagger, setting the POS tags onto the Doc object.
 
-        Arguments:
         doc (Doc): The tokens to be tagged.
-        Returns:
-            None
         """
         if tokens.length == 0:
             return 0
@@ -215,34 +169,25 @@ cdef class Tagger:
         tokens._py_tokens = [None] * tokens.length
 
     def pipe(self, stream, batch_size=1000, n_threads=2):
-        """
-        Tag a stream of documents.
+        """Tag a stream of documents.
 
         Arguments:
         stream: The sequence of documents to tag.
-            batch_size (int):
-                The number of documents to accumulate into a working set.
-            n_threads (int):
-                The number of threads with which to work on the buffer in parallel,
-                if the Matcher implementation supports multi-threading.
-        Yields:
-            Doc Documents, in order.
+        batch_size (int): The number of documents to accumulate into a working set.
+        n_threads (int): The number of threads with which to work on the buffer
+            in parallel, if the Matcher implementation supports multi-threading.
+        YIELDS (Doc): Documents, in order.
         """
         for doc in stream:
             self(doc)
             yield doc
 
     def update(self, Doc tokens, GoldParse gold, itn=0):
-        """
-        Update the statistical model, with tags supplied for the given document.
+        """Update the statistical model, with tags supplied for the given document.
 
-        Arguments:
-            doc (Doc):
-                The document to update on.
-            gold (GoldParse):
-                Manager for the gold-standard tags.
-        Returns (int):
-            Number of tags correct.
+        doc (Doc): The document to update on.
+        gold (GoldParse): Manager for the gold-standard tags.
+        RETURNS (int): Number of tags predicted correctly.
         """
         gold_tag_strs = gold.tags
         assert len(tokens) == len(gold_tag_strs)