From 5d95312fb8eb1684879b9fb8c5c928089326d0df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 02:45:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Replace dead code with an assertion in winreg.c. (GH-10028)

---
 PC/winreg.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PC/winreg.c b/PC/winreg.c
index 4f5a676f10b..c6ad7ab64e1 100644
--- a/PC/winreg.c
+++ b/PC/winreg.c
@@ -651,8 +651,7 @@ Py2Reg(PyObject *value, DWORD typ, BYTE **retDataBuf, DWORD *retDataSize)
 
                     t = PyList_GET_ITEM(value, j);
                     wstr = PyUnicode_AsUnicodeAndSize(t, &len);
-                    if (wstr == NULL)
-                        return FALSE;
+                    assert(wstr);
                     wcscpy(P, wstr);
                     P += (len + 1);
                 }