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@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Deprecations
+````````````
+
+``cm.revcmap`` is deprecated.  Use `.Colormap.reversed` to reverse a colormap.
+
+``cm.datad`` no longer contains entries for reversed colormaps in their
+"unconverted" form.
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@
 
   :doc:`/tutorials/colors/colormapnorms` for more details about data
   normalization.
-
-
 """
 
 import functools
@@ -29,17 +27,12 @@
 from matplotlib._cm_listed import cmaps as cmaps_listed
 
 
-cmap_d = {}
-
-
-# reverse all the colormaps.
-# reversed colormaps have '_r' appended to the name.
-
-
+@cbook.deprecated("3.2")
 def _reverser(f, x):  # Toplevel helper for revcmap ensuring cmap picklability.
     return f(1 - x)
 
 
+@cbook.deprecated("3.2", alternative="Colormap.reversed()")
 def revcmap(data):
     """Can only handle specification *data* in dictionary format."""
     data_r = {}
@@ -54,51 +47,26 @@ def revcmap(data):
     return data_r
 
 
-def _reverse_cmap_spec(spec):
-    """Reverses cmap specification *spec*, can handle both dict and tuple
-    type specs."""
-
-    if 'listed' in spec:
-        return {'listed': spec['listed'][::-1]}
-
-    if 'red' in spec:
-        return revcmap(spec)
-    else:
-        revspec = list(reversed(spec))
-        if len(revspec[0]) == 2:    # e.g., (1, (1.0, 0.0, 1.0))
-            revspec = [(1.0 - a, b) for a, b in revspec]
-        return revspec
-
-
-def _generate_cmap(name, lutsize):
-    """Generates the requested cmap from its *name*.  The lut size is
-    *lutsize*."""
-
-    spec = datad[name]
-
-    # Generate the colormap object.
-    if 'red' in spec:
-        return colors.LinearSegmentedColormap(name, spec, lutsize)
-    elif 'listed' in spec:
-        return colors.ListedColormap(spec['listed'], name)
-    else:
-        return colors.LinearSegmentedColormap.from_list(name, spec, lutsize)
-
-
 LUTSIZE = mpl.rcParams['image.lut']
 
-# Generate the reversed specifications (all at once, to avoid
-# modify-when-iterating).
-datad.update({cmapname + '_r': _reverse_cmap_spec(spec)
-              for cmapname, spec in datad.items()})
 
-# Precache the cmaps with ``lutsize = LUTSIZE``.
-# Also add the reversed ones added in the section above:
-for cmapname in datad:
-    cmap_d[cmapname] = _generate_cmap(cmapname, LUTSIZE)
+def _gen_cmap_d():
+    cmap_d = {**cmaps_listed}
+    for name, spec in datad.items():
+        cmap_d[name] = (  # Precache the cmaps at a fixed lutsize..
+            colors.LinearSegmentedColormap(name, spec, LUTSIZE)
+            if 'red' in spec else
+            colors.ListedColormap(spec['listed'], name)
+            if 'listed' in spec else
+            colors.LinearSegmentedColormap.from_list(name, spec, LUTSIZE))
+    # Generate reversed cmaps.
+    for cmap in list(cmap_d.values()):
+        rmap = cmap.reversed()
+        cmap_d[rmap.name] = rmap
+    return cmap_d
 
-cmap_d.update(cmaps_listed)
 
+cmap_d = _gen_cmap_d()
 locals().update(cmap_d)
 
 
 
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
 """
 
 from collections.abc import Sized
+import functools
 import itertools
 import re
 
@@ -795,6 +796,11 @@ def _resample(self, lutsize):
         """
         return LinearSegmentedColormap(self.name, self._segmentdata, lutsize)
 
+    # Helper ensuring picklability of the reversed cmap.
+    @staticmethod
+    def _reverser(func, x):
+        return func(1 - x)
+
     def reversed(self, name=None):
         """
         Make a reversed instance of the Colormap.
@@ -813,13 +819,9 @@ def reversed(self, name=None):
         if name is None:
             name = self.name + "_r"
 
-        # Function factory needed to deal with 'late binding' issue.
-        def factory(dat):
-            def func_r(x):
-                return dat(1.0 - x)
-            return func_r
-
-        data_r = {key: (factory(data) if callable(data) else
+        # Using a partial object keeps the cmap picklable.
+        data_r = {key: (functools.partial(self._reverser, data)
+                        if callable(data) else
                         [(1.0 - x, y1, y0) for x, y0, y1 in reversed(data)])
                   for key, data in self._segmentdata.items()}