commit 9e79889184a3da2aa113b78967d44a2bd13a0fa6
author Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Tue Jan 14 00:21:49 2014 -0500
committer Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> Tue Jan 14 00:21:49 2014 -0500
tree 14301849c2856ec2913bddbe2120951c2a47088d
parent 06e486c2d341df95cd8257564b89870679206c91

remove overly strict assertion (closes #20251)

Modules/socketmodule.c

diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index 27df333..880f311 100644
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -2732,7 +2732,6 @@
                                      &recvlen, &flags))
         return NULL;
     buflen = buf.len;
-    assert(buf.buf != 0 && buflen > 0);
 
     if (recvlen < 0) {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,