Remove deprecated qiskit.IBMQ alias object

qiskit/__init__.py

@@ -137,57 +137,7 @@ def __getattr__(self, attr):
         return getattr(self.aer, attr)
 
 
-class IBMQWrapper:
-    """Lazy loading wrapper for IBMQ provider."""
-
-    def __init__(self):
-        self.ibmq = None
-
-    def __bool__(self):
-        if self.ibmq is None:
-            try:
-                from qiskit.providers import ibmq
-
-                self.ibmq = ibmq.IBMQ
-                warnings.warn(
-                    "The qiskit.IBMQ entrypoint and the qiskit-ibmq-provider package ("
-                    "accessible from 'qiskit.providers.ibmq`) are deprecated and will be removed "
-                    "in a future release. Instead you should use the qiskit-ibm-provider package "
-                    "which is accessible from 'qiskit_ibm_provider'. You can install it with "
-                    "'pip install qiskit_ibm_provider'",
-                    DeprecationWarning,
-                    stacklevel=2,
-                )
-
-            except ImportError:
-                return False
-        return True
-
-    def __getattr__(self, attr):
-        if not self.ibmq:
-            try:
-                from qiskit.providers import ibmq
-
-                self.ibmq = ibmq.IBMQ
-                warnings.warn(
-                    "The qiskit.IBMQ entrypoint and the qiskit-ibmq-provider package ("
-                    "accessible from 'qiskit.providers.ibmq`) are deprecated and will be removed "
-                    "in a future release. Instead you should use the qiskit-ibm-provider package "
-                    "which is accessible from 'qiskit_ibm_provider'. You can install it with "
-                    "'pip install qiskit_ibm_provider'. Just replace 'qiskit.IBMQ' with "
-                    "'qiskit_ibm_provider.IBMProvider'",
-                    DeprecationWarning,
-                    stacklevel=2,
-                )
-            except ImportError as ex:
-                raise MissingOptionalLibraryError(
-                    "qiskit-ibmq-provider", "IBMQ provider", "pip install qiskit-ibmq-provider"
-                ) from ex
-        return getattr(self.ibmq, attr)
-
-
 Aer = AerWrapper()
-IBMQ = IBMQWrapper()
 
 __all__ = [
     "Aer",

qiskit/providers/__init__.py

@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ def get_translation_stage_plugin(self):
 handles submitting the circuits to the backend to be executed and returning a
 :class:`~qiskit.providers.Job` object. Depending on the type of backend this
 typically involves serializing the circuit object into the API format used by a
-backend. For example, on IBMQ backends from the ``qiskit-ibmq-provider``
+backend. For example, on IBM Quantum backends from the ``qiskit-ibm-provider``
 package this involves converting from a quantum circuit and options into a
 `qobj <https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.03452>`__ JSON payload and submitting
 that to the IBM Quantum API. Since every backend interface is different (and

releasenotes/notes/remove-deprecated-aliases-73eedaa4c610c4cf.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+upgrade:
+  - |
+    The deprecated ``qiskit.IBMQ`` object hase been removed. The object  was marked
+    as deprecated. This alias object was marked as deprecated in the 0.23.0 release.
+    This alias object lazily redirected attribute access to ``qiskit.providers.ibmq.IBMQ``. As the
+    ``qiskit-ibmq-provider`` package has now been retired and superseded by
+    ``qiskit-ibm-provider`` package which maintains its own namespace
+    maintaining this alias is no longer relevant. If you
+    were relying on the ``qiskit.IBMQ`` alias you should migrate your usage to
+    the ``qiskit-ibm-provider`` package, see the
+    `migration guide <https://qiskit.org/ecosystem/ibm-provider/tutorials/Migration_Guide_from_qiskit-ibmq-provider.html>`__
+    for more details.