don't count keyword arguments as positional #9943
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 489d6a9..8d7f328 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #9943: Improve the TypeError raised for passing too many positional
+ arguments.
+
- Issue #9930: Remove bogus subtype check that was causing (e.g.)
float.__rdiv__(2.0, 3) to return NotImplemented instead of the
expected 1.5.
diff --git a/Python/ceval.c b/Python/ceval.c
index 48b5678..84781be 100644
--- a/Python/ceval.c
+++ b/Python/ceval.c
@@ -3104,7 +3104,7 @@
defcount ? "at most" : "exactly",
co->co_argcount,
co->co_argcount == 1 ? "" : "s",
- argcount + kwcount);
+ argcount);
goto fail;
}
n = co->co_argcount;