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pitrou · pitrou · commit f96b78437bdd · 2010-04-06T16:01:57.000Z
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  r79837 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-04-06 17:38:25 +0200 (mar., 06 avril 2010) | 19 lines

  14 years later, we still don't know what it's for.
  Spotted by the PyPy developers.

  Original commit is:

  branch:      trunk
  user:        guido
  date:        Mon Aug 19 21:32:04 1996 +0200
  files:       Python/getargs.c
  description:
  [svn r6499] Support for keyword arguments (PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords) donated by
  Geoff Philbrick &lt;philbric@delphi.hks.com&gt; (slightly changed by me).

  Also a little change to make the file acceptable to K&amp;R C compilers
  (HPUX, SunOS 4.x).
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diff --git a/Python/getargs.c b/Python/getargs.c
@@ -1849,16 +1849,6 @@ skipitem(const char **p_format, va_list *p_va, int flags)
 				(void) va_arg(*p_va, PyTypeObject*);
 				(void) va_arg(*p_va, PyObject **);
 			}
-#if 0
-/* I don't know what this is for */
-			else if (*format == '?') {
-				inquiry pred = va_arg(*p_va, inquiry);
-				format++;
-				if ((*pred)(arg)) {
-					(void) va_arg(*p_va, PyObject **);
-				}
-			}
-#endif
 			else if (*format == '&') {
 				typedef int (*converter)(PyObject *, void *);
 				(void) va_arg(*p_va, converter);
