14 years later, we still don't know what it's for.
Spotted by the PyPy developers.

Original commit is:

branch:      trunk
user:        guido
date:        Mon Aug 19 21:32:04 1996 +0200
files:       Python/getargs.c
description:
[svn r6499] Support for keyword arguments (PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords) donated by
Geoff Philbrick <philbric@delphi.hks.com> (slightly changed by me).

Also a little change to make the file acceptable to K&R C compilers
(HPUX, SunOS 4.x).
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