diff --git a/Modules/_threadmodule.c b/Modules/_threadmodule.c
@@ -994,8 +994,7 @@ t_bootstrap(void *boot_raw)
    _PyThreadState_Init(tstate);
    PyEval_AcquireThread(tstate);
    nb_threads++;
-    res = PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords(
-        boot->func, boot->args, boot->keyw);
    if (res == NULL) {
        if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_SystemExit))
            PyErr_Clear();

diff --git a/Modules/_tkinter.c b/Modules/_tkinter.c
@@ -2417,7 +2417,7 @@ PythonCmd(ClientData clientData, Tcl_Interp *interp, int argc, const char *argv[
        }
        PyTuple_SET_ITEM(arg, i, s);
    }
-    res = PyEval_CallObject(func, arg);
    Py_DECREF(arg);

    if (res == NULL)
@@ -2661,16 +2661,13 @@ static void
FileHandler(ClientData clientData, int mask)
{
    FileHandler_ClientData *data = (FileHandler_ClientData *)clientData;
-    PyObject *func, *file, *arg, *res;

    ENTER_PYTHON
    func = data->func;
    file = data->file;

-    arg = Py_BuildValue("(Oi)", file, (long) mask);
-    res = PyEval_CallObject(func, arg);
-    Py_DECREF(arg);
-
    if (res == NULL) {
        errorInCmd = 1;
        PyErr_Fetch(&excInCmd, &valInCmd, &trbInCmd);
@@ -2840,7 +2837,7 @@ TimerHandler(ClientData clientData)

    ENTER_PYTHON

-    res  = PyEval_CallObject(func, NULL);
    Py_DECREF(func);
    Py_DECREF(v); /* See Tktt_New() */


diff --git a/Objects/abstract.c b/Objects/abstract.c
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ PyNumber_Long(PyObject *o)
    }
    trunc_func = _PyObject_LookupSpecial(o, &PyId___trunc__);
    if (trunc_func) {
-        result = PyEval_CallObject(trunc_func, NULL);
        Py_DECREF(trunc_func);
        if (result == NULL || PyLong_CheckExact(result)) {
            return result;

diff --git a/Objects/fileobject.c b/Objects/fileobject.c
@@ -49,39 +49,26 @@ PyFile_FromFd(int fd, const char *name, const char *mode, int buffering, const c
PyObject *
PyFile_GetLine(PyObject *f, int n)
{
    PyObject *result;

    if (f == NULL) {
        PyErr_BadInternalCall();
        return NULL;
    }

-    {
-        PyObject *reader;
-        PyObject *args;
-        _Py_IDENTIFIER(readline);
-
-        reader = _PyObject_GetAttrId(f, &PyId_readline);
-        if (reader == NULL)
-            return NULL;
-        if (n <= 0)
-            args = PyTuple_New(0);
-        else
-            args = Py_BuildValue("(i)", n);
-        if (args == NULL) {
-            Py_DECREF(reader);
-            return NULL;
-        }
-        result = PyEval_CallObject(reader, args);
-        Py_DECREF(reader);
-        Py_DECREF(args);
-        if (result != NULL && !PyBytes_Check(result) &&
-            !PyUnicode_Check(result)) {
-            Py_DECREF(result);
-            result = NULL;
-            PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
-                       "object.readline() returned non-string");
-        }
    }

    if (n < 0 && result != NULL && PyBytes_Check(result)) {
@@ -197,7 +184,7 @@ PyObject_AsFileDescriptor(PyObject *o)
    }
    else if ((meth = _PyObject_GetAttrId(o, &PyId_fileno)) != NULL)
    {
-        PyObject *fno = PyEval_CallObject(meth, NULL);
        Py_DECREF(meth);
        if (fno == NULL)
            return -1;

diff --git a/Objects/weakrefobject.c b/Objects/weakrefobject.c
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ proxy_checkref(PyWeakReference *proxy)

WRAP_BINARY(proxy_getattr, PyObject_GetAttr)
WRAP_UNARY(proxy_str, PyObject_Str)
-WRAP_TERNARY(proxy_call, PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords)

static PyObject *
proxy_repr(PyWeakReference *proxy)