Deprecate tostring_rgb.#25484
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As noted previously, silently dropping alpha can be confusing. Also, directly accessing the buffer array is more efficient (it does not involve copying to a string buffer) and should cover most use cases.
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Do we need any of these tostring_ methods? and even if we do, should they not be private?
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We could also deprecate tostring_argb (which we don't use either anymore); I don't have a strong opinion here.
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as of matplotlib 3.8, [tostring_rgb was deprecated](matplotlib/matplotlib#25484) as of matplotlib 3.10, tostring_rgb was removed
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As noted previously (#5336, see in particular the comments in the thread), silently dropping alpha can be confusing. Also, directly accessing the buffer array is more efficient (it does not involve copying to a string buffer) and should cover most use cases.
Closes #5336.
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