[Python-checkins] Doc: Indicate locations of parse_qs, parse_qsl, escape (GH-14828)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/aa527174f0b508cb4454956333b1a7c98bcc1ab1
commit: aa527174f0b508cb4454956333b1a7c98bcc1ab1
branch: 3.8
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019-09-11T08:04:02-07:00
summary:

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 at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index 07202ea4ff08..aefe9b53746f 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.



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