bpo-39270: Remove dead assignment from config_init_module_search_paths (GH-17914)

diff --git a/Python/pathconfig.c b/Python/pathconfig.c
index 6abc648769f712a8b945e23a40cc58759f418feb..e37b5612366e4c5be38581e515fd0391ed247c50 100644 (file)
--- a/Python/pathconfig.c
+++ b/Python/pathconfig.c
@@ -240,9 +240,8 @@ config_init_module_search_paths(PyConfig *config, _PyPathConfig *pathconfig)
 
     const wchar_t *sys_path = pathconfig->module_search_path;
     const wchar_t delim = DELIM;
-    const wchar_t *p = sys_path;
     while (1) {
-        p = wcschr(sys_path, delim);
+        const wchar_t *p = wcschr(sys_path, delim);
         if (p == NULL) {
             p = sys_path + wcslen(sys_path); /* End of string */
         }