Added Christian Tismer's patch to allow list.append(a,b,c) back --

with a twist: you have to define NO_STRICT_LIST_APPEND manually
to enable multi-arg append().

diff --git a/Objects/listobject.c b/Objects/listobject.c
index ff777a3dd14311d325a9284fa728490a1eb6f57e..d77b546edb881da88c451557cf2dc095ad13ecdc 100644 (file)
--- a/Objects/listobject.c
+++ b/Objects/listobject.c
@@ -562,13 +562,27 @@ listinsert(self, args)
        return ins(self, i, v);
 }
 
+/* Define NO_STRICT_LIST_APPEND to enable multi-argument append() */
+
+#ifndef NO_STRICT_LIST_APPEND
+#define PyArg_ParseTuple_Compat1 PyArg_ParseTuple
+#else
+#define PyArg_ParseTuple_Compat1(args, format, ret) \
+( \
+       PyTuple_GET_SIZE(args) > 1 ? (*ret = args, 1) : \
+       PyTuple_GET_SIZE(args) == 1 ? (*ret = PyTuple_GET_ITEM(args, 0), 1) : \
+       PyArg_ParseTuple(args, format, ret) \
+)
+#endif
+
+
 static PyObject *
 listappend(self, args)
        PyListObject *self;
        PyObject *args;
 {
        PyObject *v;
-       if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O:append", &v))
+       if (!PyArg_ParseTuple_Compat1(args, "O:append", &v))
                return NULL;
        return ins(self, (int) self->ob_size, v);
 }
@@ -1326,7 +1340,7 @@ listindex(self, args)
        int i;
        PyObject *v;
 
-       if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O:index", &v))
+       if (!PyArg_ParseTuple_Compat1(args, "O:index", &v))
                return NULL;
        for (i = 0; i < self->ob_size; i++) {
                if (PyObject_Compare(self->ob_item[i], v) == 0)
@@ -1347,7 +1361,7 @@ listcount(self, args)
        int i;
        PyObject *v;
 
-       if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O:count", &v))
+       if (!PyArg_ParseTuple_Compat1(args, "O:count", &v))
                return NULL;
        for (i = 0; i < self->ob_size; i++) {
                if (PyObject_Compare(self->ob_item[i], v) == 0)
@@ -1366,7 +1380,7 @@ listremove(self, args)
        int i;
        PyObject *v;
 
-       if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O:remove", &v))
+       if (!PyArg_ParseTuple_Compat1(args, "O:remove", &v))
                return NULL;
        for (i = 0; i < self->ob_size; i++) {
                if (PyObject_Compare(self->ob_item[i], v) == 0) {