<p dir="auto">In the currently online pandas 0.19.2 documentation, I see the following inconsistency:</p>
<ul dir="auto">
<li>There is <a href="http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.pivot_table.html" rel="nofollow">pandas.DataFrame.pivot_table</a>, but also <a href="http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.pivot_table.html" rel="nofollow">pandas.pivot_table</a>.</li>
<li>In the same way, there is <a href="http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.pivot.html" rel="nofollow">pandas.DataFrame.pivot</a> and also <a href="http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.pivot.html" rel="nofollow">pandas.pivot</a>. (BTW., the latter has the dataframe argument missing.)</li>
<li>There is <a href="http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.melt.html" rel="nofollow">pandas.melt</a>, but no pandas.DataFrame.melt.</li>
</ul>
<p dir="auto">The global versions of these methods (and probably others) are identical to the local ones except for an additional DataFrame argument, I think that all these should only be DataFrame methods. This would e.g. consistently enable chaining.</p>
<p dir="auto">So let me suggest that the global versions should be removed, of course after a deprecation period.</p>
<p dir="auto">I think this is pretty duplicative and unless its a <em>major</em> bug fix should be avoided (in whatsnew), though I am +1 for API/enhancements...etc</p>
<p dir="auto">need a 1-time cleanout of v0.13.0 txt...then (let's leave prior version alone)</p>