[New-bugs-announce] [issue39271] Dead assignment in pattern_subx

[Alex Henrie]

New submission from Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24 at gmail.com>:

The function pattern_subx currently sets the variable b to charsize, but that variable is reset to STATE_OFFSET(&state, state.start) before it is ever used.

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components: Regular Expressions
messages: 359653
nosy: alex.henrie, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Dead assignment in pattern_subx
type: performance
versions: Python 3.9

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