Solved by KFrank in post #2 
              
              
                Hello Nicholas! 

I think you have it backwards.  Rather than being deprecated, it 
appears that tile() is a new function. 
I see tile() absent from the 1.7.0 documentation, but present in the 
master (unstable) documentation you linked to. 
Here is tile() in a somewhat old nightly build: 
>>> impor…