[Python-checkins] cpython: whatsnew: html.escape 10x faster, _gestalt module gone.

[r.david.murray]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c2a21098fe7f
changeset:   88918:c2a21098fe7f
user:        R David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>
date:        Mon Feb 03 01:14:03 2014 -0500
summary:
  whatsnew: html.escape 10x faster, _gestalt module gone.

files:
  Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst |  9 ++++++++-
  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1448,6 +1448,8 @@
   significant amounts of data through :mod:`subprocess`.  (Contributed
   by Richard Oudkerk in :issue:`15758`.)
 
+* :func:`html.escape` is now 10x faster.  (Contributed by Matt Bryant in
+  :issue:`18020`.)
 
 
 Deprecated
@@ -1559,6 +1561,11 @@
 * The unused and undocumented internal ``Scanner`` class has been removed from
   the :mod:`pydoc` module.
 
+* The private and effectively unused ``_gestalt`` module has been removed,
+  along with the private :mod:`platform` functions ``_mac_ver_lookup``,
+  ``_mac_ver_gstalt``, and ``_bcd2str``, which would only have ever been called
+  on badly broken OSX systems (see :issue:`18393`).
+
 
 
 Porting to Python 3.4
@@ -1608,7 +1615,7 @@
   exceptions now.
 
 * :func:`functools.update_wrapper` and :func:`functools.wraps` now correctly
-  set the ``__wrapped__`` attribute to the function being wrapper, even if
+  set the ``__wrapped__`` attribute to the function being wrapped, even if
   that function also had its ``__wrapped__`` attribute set. This means
   ``__wrapped__`` attributes now correctly link a stack of decorated
   functions rather than every ``__wrapped__`` attribute in the chain

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Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython