Get rid of apply(); extended call syntax is not news anymore, and apply()

will generate a PendingDeprecationWarning in Python 2.3.

lib/python/Products/PageTemplates/tests/testTALES.py

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ class TALESTests(unittest.TestCase):
         e = TALES.Engine()
         e.registerType('simple', TALES.SimpleExpr)
         e.registerType('unicode', DummyUnicodeExpr)
-        return apply(e.getContext, (), kws)
+        return e.getContext(**kws)
 
     def testContext0(self):
         '''Test use of Context'''

lib/python/TAL/TALInterpreter.py

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ class AltTALGenerator(TALGenerator):
 
     def emit(self, *args):
         if self.enabled:
-            apply(TALGenerator.emit, (self,) + args)
+            TALGenerator.emit(self, *args)
 
     def emitStartElement(self, name, attrlist, taldict, metaldict, i18ndict,
                          position=(None, None), isend=0):

lib/python/TAL/markbench.py

@@ -33,14 +33,14 @@ from cStringIO import StringIO
 
 def time_apply(f, args, kwargs, count):
     for i in range(4):
-        apply(f, args, kwargs)
+        f(*args, **kwargs)
     r = [None] * count
     t0 = time.clock()
     for i in r:
         pass
     t1 = time.clock()
     for i in r:
-        apply(f, args, kwargs)
+        f(*args, **kwargs)
     t = time.clock() - t1 - (t1 - t0)
     return t / count
 

lib/python/TAL/timer.py

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def timefunc(count, func, *args):
     sys.stderr.flush()
     t0 = time.clock()
     for i in range(count):
-        result = apply(func, args)
+        result = func(*args)
     t1 = time.clock()
     sys.stderr.write("%6.3f secs for %d calls, i.e. %4.0f msecs per call\n"
                      % ((t1-t0), count, 1000*(t1-t0)/count))