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

Mon Feb 3 07:33:53 CET 2014

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