Obtain cleaner coding and a system wide 
performance boost by using the fast, pre-parsed 
PyArg_Unpack function instead of PyArg_ParseTuple 
function which is driven by a format string.

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The changes to spam* are non-sensical: there is no point in
concatenating the empty string with #OP, just remove the
empty string.

Apart from this, the patch is fine.

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One more change: Please try to report the correct function
name for min/max, using ?:.

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The patch looks good, apart from the following:the last
patched line in Python/bltinmodule.c has
   if (!PyArg_UnpackTuple(args, "OO:issubclass", 2, 2,
&derived, &cls))
instead of
   if (!PyArg_UnpackTuple(args, "issubclass", 2, 2,
&derived, &cls))

"" #OP must be used, because OP is not passed in as a string
constant, i.e. the macro is called as spami(truth,
PyObject_IsTrue), not as spami("truth", PyObject_IsTrue), so
IMHO that part of the patch is OK.

There are several more spots, when this could be used:
Modules/_codecsmodule.c: register
Modules/_hotshot.c: runcall
Modules/_localemodule.c: strcoll
Modules/_sre.c: __deepcopy__, expand, stat, end, span
Modules/_tkinter.c: deletefilehandler, _flatten
Modules/arraymodule.c: count, index, remove, extend, append,
 tofile, fromlist
Modules/cPickle.c: Unpickler, load
Modules/cStringIO.c: getval, writelines, StringIO
Modules/mpzmodule.c: several unnamed functions
Modules/puremodule.c: purify_map_pool_id
Modules/pyexpat.c: ParseFile
Modules/selectmodule.c: select, unregister, poll
Modules/timemodule.c asctime, mktime
Modules/_bsddb.c: append, has_key, keys, items, values
Modules/posixmodule.c: setgid
Modules/typeobject.c: Many unnamed functions
PC/_winreg.c: CloseKey,  FlushKey, QueryInfoKey
Python/exception.c: __getitem__ and __str__ three times
Python/marshal.c: dump, load, dumps
Python/sysmodule.c: exit

Furthermore, , there are several spots where the format
string starts with :, i.e. ":foo". Should those functions
all be changed to METH_NOARGS?

Martin, can this patch be accepted, so it can go in before
2.3a1 is released?

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The patch is already accepted, with the requested changes to
correctness (yours and mine). Your suggested changes to
replace other "OO" callers should be separately submitted
and reviewed (using METH_O where applicable also); your
suggested changes to use METH_NOARGS should be submitted as
yet another patch: reviewing this stuff is difficult, as it
is easy to overlook errors.

It is not the case that 
"" #OP
must be used, 
#OP
works just as fine. # is a unary operator, not a binary one
(## is the binary operator in the preprocessor). #OP creates
a string, so you have two string literals after one another
in the preprocessor output. This is not an error, as
subsequent string literals are concatenated in a later
translation phase in the compiler.

In the specific case, there is no point in pasting "" with
another string literal, so this should be dropped for clarity.

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Removed the "" blocks in operator.c.
Fixed the "OO:" prefix for issubclass().
Applied patch and closing.

Thanks for the quick and thorough
reviews.