greatly improve argument parsing error messages (closes #12265)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8485b9c..650ae60 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #12265: Make error messages produced by passing an invalid set of
+  arguments to a function more informative.
+
 - Issue #12225: Still allow Python to build if Python is not in its hg repo or
   mercurial is not installed.