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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:04:02 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Doc: Indicate locations of parse_qs, parse_qsl, escape (GH-14828)
X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0rc1~175
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aa527174f0b508cb4454956333b1a7c98bcc1ab1;p=python

Doc: Indicate locations of parse_qs, parse_qsl, escape (GH-14828)


Since they have been removed from cgi it's useful to remind people where they
can be found instead.
(cherry picked from commit 1abf54336fd2cb545c453d22dd5501392b3350b2)

Co-authored-by: Simon Willison <swillison@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index 07202ea4ff..aefe9b5374 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -1467,7 +1467,8 @@ The following features and APIs have been removed from Python 3.8:
   script is tied to. (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`25427`.)
 
 * ``parse_qs``, ``parse_qsl``, and ``escape`` are removed from :mod:`cgi`
-  module.  They are deprecated from Python 3.2 or older.
+  module.  They are deprecated from Python 3.2 or older. They should be imported
+  from the ``urllib.parse`` and ``html`` modules instead.
 
 * ``filemode`` function is removed from :mod:`tarfile` module.
   It is not documented and deprecated since Python 3.3.