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@@ -1448,6 +1448,8 @@ Significant Optimizations
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 @@ Code Cleanups
* 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 @@ Changes in the Python API
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