Patch #427190: Implement and use METH_NOARGS and METH_O.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7648e3f..6bcf2e4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -90,6 +90,12 @@
(These warnings currently don't conform to the warnings framework of
PEP 230; we intend to fix this in 2.2a2.)
+- Two new flags METH_NOARGS and METH_O are available in method definition
+ tables to simplify implementation of methods with no arguments and a
+ single untyped argument. Calling such methods is more efficient than
+ calling corresponding METH_VARARGS methods. METH_OLDARGS is now
+ deprecated.
+
- The UTF-16 codec was modified to be more RFC compliant. It will now
only remove BOM characters at the start of the string and then
only if running in native mode (UTF-16-LE and -BE won't remove a