backport r62271 from trunk.

remove the now obsoleted assertion.

diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index 7cd613dd87292e05c319c0346a547f0260d078b3..3901f5731a747d964585a4a87ee752a64c05f43f 100644 (file)
--- 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");