[3.9] bpo-27032, bpo-37328: Document removing HTMLParser.unescape() (GH-22288)

terryjreedy · serhiy-storchaka · web-flow · commit 4daeb9eec294 · 2020-09-17T20:47:22.000-04:00
(cherry picked from commit a33f2c2) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
@@ -892,6 +892,11 @@ Removed
   :func:`asyncio.current_task` and :func:`asyncio.all_tasks` instead.
   (Contributed by Rémi Lapeyre in :issue:`40967`)
 
+* The ``unescape()`` method in the :class:`html.parser.HTMLParser` class
+  has been removed (it was deprecated since Python 3.4).  :func:`html.unescape`
+  should be used for converting character references to the corresponding
+  unicode characters.
+
 
 Porting to Python 3.9
 =====================
