remove deprecated escape and unescape

CHANGES.rst

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Unreleased
         :meth:`Signature.bind` and :func:`inspect.signature` instead.
     -   Remove ``detect_utf_encoding``, it's built-in to ``json.loads``.
     -   Remove ``format_string``, use :class:`string.Template` instead.
+    -   Remove ``escape`` and ``unescape``. Use MarkupSafe instead.
 
 -   Default values passed to ``Headers`` are validated the same way
     values added later are. :issue:`1608`

docs/utils.rst

@@ -4,16 +4,8 @@ Utilities
 
 Various utility functions shipped with Werkzeug.
 
-
-HTML Helpers
-============
-
 .. module:: werkzeug.utils
 
-.. autofunction:: escape
-
-.. autofunction:: unescape
-
 
 General Helpers
 ===============

src/werkzeug/utils.py

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 import sys
 import typing as t
 import unicodedata
-import warnings
 from datetime import datetime
 from time import time
 from zlib import adler32
@@ -219,54 +218,6 @@ def secure_filename(filename: str) -> str:
     return filename
 
 
-def escape(s: t.Any) -> str:
-    """Replace ``&``, ``<``, ``>``, ``"``, and ``'`` with HTML-safe
-    sequences.
-
-    ``None`` is escaped to an empty string.
-
-    .. deprecated:: 2.0
-        Will be removed in Werkzeug 2.1. Use MarkupSafe instead.
-    """
-    import html
-
-    warnings.warn(
-        "'utils.escape' is deprecated and will be removed in Werkzeug"
-        " 2.1. Use MarkupSafe instead.",
-        DeprecationWarning,
-        stacklevel=2,
-    )
-
-    if s is None:
-        return ""
-
-    if hasattr(s, "__html__"):
-        return s.__html__()  # type: ignore
-
-    if not isinstance(s, str):
-        s = str(s)
-
-    return html.escape(s, quote=True)  # type: ignore
-
-
-def unescape(s: str) -> str:
-    """The reverse of :func:`escape`. This unescapes all the HTML
-    entities, not only those inserted by ``escape``.
-
-    .. deprecated:: 2.0
-        Will be removed in Werkzeug 2.1. Use MarkupSafe instead.
-    """
-    import html
-
-    warnings.warn(
-        "'utils.unescape' is deprecated and will be removed in Werkzueg"
-        " 2.1. Use MarkupSafe instead.",
-        DeprecationWarning,
-        stacklevel=2,
-    )
-    return html.unescape(s)
-
-
 def redirect(
     location: str, code: int = 302, Response: t.Optional[t.Type["Response"]] = None
 ) -> "Response":