remove overly strict assertion (closes #20251)

diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index 27df333b7a7e1cfe6ff59bf09c2313f886ad8bc7..880f31165a9bc5acf12709e33a5e79b332a901c9 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -2732,7 +2732,6 @@ sock_recvfrom_into(PySocketSockObject *s, PyObject *args, PyObject* kwds)
                                      &recvlen, &flags))
         return NULL;
     buflen = buf.len;
-    assert(buf.buf != 0 && buflen > 0);
 
     if (recvlen < 0) {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,