The last use of this API was removed in b6e71f8af5b8 in 2016. While
not formally deprecated, as of the last commit the code is no longer
explicitly tested. I think the new API has existed long enough for
people to transition to it.
I also have plans to more formalize the peer API and removing batch()
makes that work easier.
I'm not convinced the current client-side API around batching is
great. But it's the best we have at the moment.
.. api:: remove peer.batch()
Replace with peer.iterbatch().