commit 3a7f7977f1ad3e5afe79254eef5057c0288613db
author Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> Thu May 03 03:36:40 2012 +0200
committer Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> Thu May 03 03:36:40 2012 +0200
tree 5aa7c8262e8d2a203f17551f0129a385291d03ad
parent 684d5fd42067109f46e94ea3ddab72ebd4e130ee

Remove buggy assertion in PyUnicode_Substring()

Use also directly unicode_empty, instead of PyUnicode_New(0,0).

Objects/unicodeobject.c

diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 09b5733..0e7493b 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -12078,8 +12078,8 @@
         return NULL;
     }
     if (start >= length || end < start) {
-        assert(end == length);
-        return PyUnicode_New(0, 0);
+        Py_INCREF(unicode_empty);
+        return unicode_empty;
     }
 
     length = end - start;