The functions asctime() and mktime() are documented to take a 9-tuple

only.  Through some mysterious interaction, they would take 9 separate
arguments as well.  This misfeature is now disabled (to end a
difference with JPython).

diff --git a/Modules/timemodule.c b/Modules/timemodule.c
index 417825d7504399a7fec15e37d305ab38d5e2cc20..1d0fc3c2e1d4f773f1481e588909a39b5f63d05d 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/timemodule.c
+++ b/Modules/timemodule.c
@@ -452,9 +452,12 @@ time_asctime(self, args)
        PyObject *self;
        PyObject *args;
 {
+       PyObject *tup;
        struct tm buf;
        char *p;
-       if (!gettmarg(args, &buf))
+       if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O", &tup))
+               return NULL;
+       if (!gettmarg(tup, &buf))
                return NULL;
        p = asctime(&buf);
        if (p[24] == '\n')
@@ -500,11 +503,14 @@ time_mktime(self, args)
        PyObject *self;
        PyObject *args;
 {
+       PyObject *tup;
        struct tm buf;
        time_t tt;
+       if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O", &tup))
+               return NULL;
        tt = time(&tt);
        buf = *localtime(&tt);
-       if (!gettmarg(args, &buf))
+       if (!gettmarg(tup, &buf))
                return NULL;
        tt = mktime(&buf);
        if (tt == (time_t)(-1)) {
@@ -529,10 +535,10 @@ static PyMethodDef time_methods[] = {
        {"sleep",       time_sleep, 0, sleep_doc},
        {"gmtime",      time_gmtime, 0, gmtime_doc},
        {"localtime",   time_localtime, 0, localtime_doc},
-       {"asctime",     time_asctime, 0, asctime_doc},
+       {"asctime",     time_asctime, 1, asctime_doc},
        {"ctime",       time_ctime, 0, ctime_doc},
 #ifdef HAVE_MKTIME
-       {"mktime",      time_mktime, 0, mktime_doc},
+       {"mktime",      time_mktime, 1, mktime_doc},
 #endif
 #ifdef HAVE_STRFTIME
        {"strftime",    time_strftime, 1, strftime_doc},