diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 772cb7a93b7..56d8434d810 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #16113: Add SHA-3 and SHAKE support to hashlib module.
 
+- Eliminate a tautological-pointer-compare warning in _scproxy.c.
+
 - Issue #27776: The :func:`os.urandom` function does now block on Linux 3.17
   and newer until the system urandom entropy pool is initialized to increase
   the security. This change is part of the :pep:`524`.
diff --git a/Modules/_scproxy.c b/Modules/_scproxy.c
index 68be458bf4e..1ce4b776f3e 100644
--- a/Modules/_scproxy.c
+++ b/Modules/_scproxy.c
@@ -71,16 +71,12 @@ get_proxy_settings(PyObject* mod __attribute__((__unused__)))
     result = PyDict_New();
     if (result == NULL) goto error;
 
-    if (&kSCPropNetProxiesExcludeSimpleHostnames != NULL) {
-        aNum = CFDictionaryGetValue(proxyDict,
-            kSCPropNetProxiesExcludeSimpleHostnames);
-        if (aNum == NULL) {
-            v = PyBool_FromLong(0);
-        } else {
-            v = PyBool_FromLong(cfnum_to_int32(aNum));
-        }
-    }  else {
+    aNum = CFDictionaryGetValue(proxyDict,
+        kSCPropNetProxiesExcludeSimpleHostnames);
+    if (aNum == NULL) {
         v = PyBool_FromLong(0);
+    } else {
+        v = PyBool_FromLong(cfnum_to_int32(aNum));
     }
 
     if (v == NULL) goto error;