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 Library
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+- Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
+  characters by default.  Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.  
+
 - Issue 9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
   debugging in doctests.