diff --git a/Objects/typeobject.c b/Objects/typeobject.c
index 7735851..1f0204d 100644
--- a/Objects/typeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/typeobject.c
@@ -4259,7 +4259,7 @@
 }
 
 static struct PyMethodDef tp_new_methoddef[] = {
-	{"__new__", (PyCFunction)tp_new_wrapper, METH_KEYWORDS,
+	{"__new__", (PyCFunction)tp_new_wrapper, METH_VARARGS|METH_KEYWORDS,
 	 PyDoc_STR("T.__new__(S, ...) -> "
 		   "a new object with type S, a subtype of T")},
 	{0}