fix slow tests

doc/source/whatsnew/v2.1.0.rst

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ enhancement1
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 When given a callable, :meth:`Series.map` applies the callable to all elements of the :class:`Series`.
-Similarly, :meth:`DataFrame.map` (:meth:`DataFrame.applymap`) applies the callable to all elements of the :class:`DataFrame`,
+Similarly, :meth:`DataFrame.map` (previously named :meth:`DataFrame.applymap`) applies the callable to all elements of the :class:`DataFrame`,
 while :meth:`Index.map` applies the callable to all elements of the :class:`Index`.
 
 Frequently, it is not desirable to apply the callable to nan-like values of the array and to avoid doing
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Also, note that :meth:`Categorical.map` implicitly has had its ``na_action`` set
 This has been deprecated and will :meth:`Categorical.map` in the future change the default
 to ``na_action=None``, like for all the other array types.
 
-Notice also that :meth:`DataFrame.applymap` has been renamed to :meth:`DataFrame.map` (:issue:`52353`).
+Notice also that in this version, :meth:`DataFrame.applymap` has been renamed to :meth:`DataFrame.map` (:issue:`52353`).
 
 .. _whatsnew_210.enhancements.other:
 

pandas/tests/io/test_html.py

@@ -682,8 +682,8 @@ def try_remove_ws(x):
             "Hamilton Bank, NA",
             "The Citizens Savings Bank",
         ]
-        dfnew = df.applymap(try_remove_ws).replace(old, new)
-        gtnew = ground_truth.applymap(try_remove_ws)
+        dfnew = df.map(try_remove_ws).replace(old, new)
+        gtnew = ground_truth.map(try_remove_ws)
         converted = dfnew
         date_cols = ["Closing Date", "Updated Date"]
         converted[date_cols] = converted[date_cols].apply(to_datetime)