Removed private API get_template_from_string.

It wasn't documented and it wasn't used anywhere.

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/django/template/loader.py b/django/template/loader.py
index f27494dfb1..87a9789b31 100644
--- a/django/template/loader.py
+++ b/django/template/loader.py
@@ -75,10 +75,6 @@ def select_template(template_name_list, dirs=_dirs_undefined, using=None):
         raise TemplateDoesNotExist("No template names provided")
 
 
-def get_template_from_string(*args, **kwargs):
-    return Engine.get_default().from_string(*args, **kwargs)
-
-
 def render_to_string(*args, **kwargs):
     return Engine.get_default().render_to_string(*args, **kwargs)
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
index 3ebdebbea0..8bf3659ba2 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
@@ -838,8 +838,9 @@ Cleanup of the ``django.template`` namespace
 If you've been relying on private APIs exposed in the ``django.template``
 module, you may have to import them from ``django.template.base`` instead.
 
-Also private APIs ``django.template.base.compile_string()`` and
-``django.template.loader.find_template()`` were removed.
+Also private APIs ``django.template.base.compile_string()``,
+``django.template.loader.find_template()``, and
+``django.template.loader.get_template_from_string()`` were removed.
 
 Miscellaneous
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