From: Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:54:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: backport r62271 from trunk.
X-Git-Tag: v2.5.3c1~107
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a6add69a63385da3e8abf34023b671137479bf5a;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

backport r62271 from trunk.
remove the now obsoleted assertion.
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diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index 7cd613dd8729..3901f5731a74 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ PyObject *
 PyString_FromStringAndSize(const char *str, Py_ssize_t size)
 {
 	register PyStringObject *op;
-	assert(size >= 0);
 	if (size < 0) {
 		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_SystemError,
 		    "Negative size passed to PyString_FromStringAndSize");