From 5f0454d31e751499fe6473c1df9cc5953ea3318a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Ayres <aayres@enthought.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:11:47 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] remove deprecated create_log_file_handler

---
 apptools/logger/api.py    |  2 +-
 apptools/logger/logger.py | 28 ----------------------------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apptools/logger/api.py b/apptools/logger/api.py
index 603c6d971..be9797e16 100644
--- a/apptools/logger/api.py
+++ b/apptools/logger/api.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from .logger import add_log_queue_handler, create_log_file_handler
+from .logger import add_log_queue_handler
 from .logger import FORMATTER, LEVEL, LogFileHandler
 from .log_point import log_point
 from .filtering_handler import FilteringHandler
diff --git a/apptools/logger/logger.py b/apptools/logger/logger.py
index 28c9b48dd..43d0a3b76 100644
--- a/apptools/logger/logger.py
+++ b/apptools/logger/logger.py
@@ -51,34 +51,6 @@ def __init__(
         self.setLevel(level)
 
 
-@deprecated('use "LogFileHandler"')
-def create_log_file_handler(
-    path, maxBytes=1000000, backupCount=3, level=None, formatter=None
-):
-    """Creates a log file handler.
-
-    This is just a convenience function to make it easy to create the same
-    kind of handlers across applications.
-
-    It sets the handler's formatter to the default formatter, and its logging
-    level to the default logging level.
-
-    """
-    if level is None:
-        level = LEVEL
-    if formatter is None:
-        formatter = FORMATTER
-
-    handler = RotatingFileHandler(
-        path, maxBytes=maxBytes, backupCount=backupCount
-    )
-
-    handler.setFormatter(formatter)
-    handler.setLevel(level)
-
-    return handler
-
-
 def add_log_queue_handler(logger, level=None, formatter=None):
     """Adds a queueing log handler to a logger."""
     if level is None:

From e5ef995b56607f9cde5d2c06538aa876a57e1a51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Ayres <aayres@enthought.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:15:20 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] add news fragment

---
 docs/releases/upcoming/218.removal.rst | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/releases/upcoming/218.removal.rst

diff --git a/docs/releases/upcoming/218.removal.rst b/docs/releases/upcoming/218.removal.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..070bf361f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/releases/upcoming/218.removal.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Remove deprecated create_log_file_handler function (#218)
\ No newline at end of file