diff --git a/Parser/parsetok.c b/Parser/parsetok.c
index 73e7e3c95a6..bb9afc4f65b 100644
--- a/Parser/parsetok.c
+++ b/Parser/parsetok.c
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ parsetok(struct tok_state *tok, grammar *g, int start, perrdetail *err_ret,
 {
     parser_state *ps;
     node *n;
-    int started = 0, handling_import = 0, handling_with = 0;
+    int started = 0;
 
     if ((ps = PyParser_New(g, start)) == NULL) {
         fprintf(stderr, "no mem for new parser\n");
@@ -154,7 +154,6 @@ parsetok(struct tok_state *tok, grammar *g, int start, perrdetail *err_ret,
         }
         if (type == ENDMARKER && started) {
             type = NEWLINE; /* Add an extra newline */
-            handling_with = handling_import = 0;
             started = 0;
             /* Add the right number of dedent tokens,
                except if a certain flag is given --