About the new but unreferenced new_class, Guido sez:

> Looks like an experiment by Oren Tirosh that didn't get nuked.  I
> think you can safely lose it.

It's gone.

diff --git a/Objects/classobject.c b/Objects/classobject.c
index 979c967a06f72915cf37a1e47202ff558a3b5819..88bd20c29e5b3bc33eb730eee873d35e9d1c5392 100644 (file)
--- a/Objects/classobject.c
+++ b/Objects/classobject.c
@@ -155,21 +155,6 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(class_doc,
 Create a class object.  The name must be a string; the second argument\n\
 a tuple of classes, and the third a dictionary.");
 
-static PyObject *
-new_class(PyObject* unused, PyObject* args)
-{
-       PyObject *name;
-       PyObject *classes;
-       PyObject *dict;
-  
-       if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "SO!O!:class",
-                             &name,
-                             &PyTuple_Type, &classes,
-                             &PyDict_Type, &dict))
-               return NULL;
-       return PyClass_New(classes, dict, name);
-}
-
 static PyObject *
 class_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
 {