From a6add69a63385da3e8abf34023b671137479bf5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gregory P. Smith" <greg@mad-scientist.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:54:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] backport r62271 from trunk. remove the now obsoleted
 assertion.

---
 Objects/stringobject.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index 7cd613dd87..3901f5731a 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");
-- 
2.40.0