Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
diff --git a/Include/ceval.h b/Include/ceval.h
index f441197..a3b3dcf 100644
--- a/Include/ceval.h
+++ b/Include/ceval.h
@@ -10,10 +10,6 @@
PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords(
PyObject *, PyObject *, PyObject *);
-/* DLL-level Backwards compatibility: */
-#undef PyEval_CallObject
-PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyEval_CallObject(PyObject *, PyObject *);
-
/* Inline this */
#define PyEval_CallObject(func,arg) \
PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords(func, arg, (PyObject *)NULL)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ec2da1e..3715520 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -169,6 +169,10 @@
C-API
-----
+- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
+ function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons,
+ is now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
+
- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported
from Python 3.1.
diff --git a/Python/ceval.c b/Python/ceval.c
index 339a351..b06de50 100644
--- a/Python/ceval.c
+++ b/Python/ceval.c
@@ -3852,18 +3852,7 @@
/* External interface to call any callable object.
- The arg must be a tuple or NULL. */
-
-#undef PyEval_CallObject
-/* for backward compatibility: export this interface */
-
-PyObject *
-PyEval_CallObject(PyObject *func, PyObject *arg)
-{
- return PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords(func, arg, (PyObject *)NULL);
-}
-#define PyEval_CallObject(func,arg) \
- PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords(func, arg, (PyObject *)NULL)
+ The arg must be a tuple or NULL. The kw must be a dict or NULL. */
PyObject *
PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords(PyObject *func, PyObject *arg, PyObject *kw)