Issue #20274: When calling a _sqlite.Connection, it now complains if passed

any keyword arguments.  Previously it silently ignored them.  Also: Remove
ignored and erroneous "kwargs" parameters from three METH_VARARGS methods
on _sqlite.Connection.

Misc/NEWS

@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ What's New in Python 2.7.10?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #20274: When calling a _sqlite.Connection, it now complains if passed
+  any keyword arguments.  Previously it silently ignored them.
+
+- Issue #20274: Remove ignored and erroneous "kwargs" parameters from three
+  METH_VARARGS methods on _sqlite.Connection.
+
 - Issue #23629: Fix the default __sizeof__ implementation for variable-sized
   objects.
 

Modules/_sqlite/connection.c

@@ -1192,6 +1192,9 @@ PyObject* pysqlite_connection_call(pysqlite_Connection* self, PyObject* args, Py
         return NULL;
     }
 
+    if (!_PyArg_NoKeywords(MODULE_NAME ".Connection()", kwargs))
+        return NULL;
+
     if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O", &sql)) {
         return NULL;
     }
@@ -1242,7 +1245,7 @@ error:
     return (PyObject*)statement;
 }
 
-PyObject* pysqlite_connection_execute(pysqlite_Connection* self, PyObject* args, PyObject* kwargs)
+PyObject* pysqlite_connection_execute(pysqlite_Connection* self, PyObject* args)
 {
     PyObject* cursor = 0;
     PyObject* result = 0;
@@ -1271,7 +1274,7 @@ error:
     return cursor;
 }
 
-PyObject* pysqlite_connection_executemany(pysqlite_Connection* self, PyObject* args, PyObject* kwargs)
+PyObject* pysqlite_connection_executemany(pysqlite_Connection* self, PyObject* args)
 {
     PyObject* cursor = 0;
     PyObject* result = 0;
@@ -1300,7 +1303,7 @@ error:
     return cursor;
 }
 
-PyObject* pysqlite_connection_executescript(pysqlite_Connection* self, PyObject* args, PyObject* kwargs)
+PyObject* pysqlite_connection_executescript(pysqlite_Connection* self, PyObject* args)
 {
     PyObject* cursor = 0;
     PyObject* result = 0;