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-rw-r--r--Objects/stringobject.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index cb0e20b..657b200 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -105,8 +105,11 @@ PyString_FromStringAndSize(const char *str, int size)
PyObject *
PyString_FromString(const char *str)
{
- register size_t size = strlen(str);
+ register size_t size;
register PyStringObject *op;
+
+ assert(str != NULL);
+ size = strlen(str);
if (size > INT_MAX) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError,
"string is too long for a Python string");