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  r74689 | mark.dickinson | 2009-09-06 21:51:37 +0100 (Sun, 06 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Remove redundant assignment
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diff --git a/Objects/longobject.c b/Objects/longobject.c
index b83cdc8..34850f1 100644
--- a/Objects/longobject.c
+++ b/Objects/longobject.c
@@ -1862,7 +1862,6 @@
 	for (bits_per_char = -1; n; ++bits_per_char)
 		n >>= 1;
 	/* n <- total # of bits needed, while setting p to end-of-string */
-	n = 0;
 	while (_PyLong_DigitValue[Py_CHARMASK(*p)] < base)
 		++p;
 	*str = p;