From 56c7acf262c57d99be861a07205c6a6fe8eec418 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 18:09:26 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-43360: Remove dead initialization from parse_abbr
 function

---
 Modules/_zoneinfo.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Modules/_zoneinfo.c b/Modules/_zoneinfo.c
index 3b2d282d65cab9..c8c791b6d7c0d8 100644
--- a/Modules/_zoneinfo.c
+++ b/Modules/_zoneinfo.c
@@ -1709,11 +1709,11 @@ static Py_ssize_t
 parse_abbr(const char *const p, PyObject **abbr)
 {
     const char *ptr = p;
-    char buff = *ptr;
     const char *str_start;
     const char *str_end;
 
     if (*ptr == '<') {
+        char buff;
         ptr++;
         str_start = ptr;
         while ((buff = *ptr) != '>') {