🔥 remove deprecated numpy function (#4244)

Author: MarcoGorelli

pymc3/distributions/multivariate.py

@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ def random(self, point=None, size=None):
         """
         nu, V = draw_values([self.nu, self.V], point=point, size=size)
         size = 1 if size is None else size
-        return generate_samples(stats.wishart.rvs, np.asscalar(nu), V, broadcast_shape=(size,))
+        return generate_samples(stats.wishart.rvs, nu.item(), V, broadcast_shape=(size,))
 
     def logp(self, X):
         """

pymc3/util.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 import xarray
 import arviz
-from numpy import asscalar, ndarray
+from numpy import ndarray
 
 from theano.tensor import TensorVariable
 
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ def get_repr_for_variable(variable, formatting="plain"):
                 pass
         value = variable.eval()
         if not value.shape or value.shape == (1,):
-            return asscalar(value)
+            return value.item()
         return "array"
 
     if formatting == "latex":