From b3557e87a8ea1e945ff483bcd5dabe3589eb3e61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Lippert <eric@lippert.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:58:10 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix issue 34551 - remove redundant store

The assignment of i/2 to nk is redundant because on this code path, nk is already the size of the dictionary, and i is already twice the size of the dictionary. I've replaced the store with an assertion that i/2 is nk.
---
 Objects/call.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Objects/call.c b/Objects/call.c
index 1937a8b2278e85..bda05738755a5e 100644
--- a/Objects/call.c
+++ b/Objects/call.c
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ _PyFunction_FastCallDict(PyObject *func, PyObject *const *args, Py_ssize_t nargs
             Py_INCREF(k[i+1]);
             i += 2;
         }
-        nk = i / 2;
+        assert(i / 2 == nk);
     }
     else {
         kwtuple = NULL;