From 52a61294f9fe0af9db299b8958f82e3a320fc12f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Halley Gotway <johnhg@ucar.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:02:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Per #2673, try again ci-skip-unit

---
 src/libcode/vx_python3_utils/wchar_argv.cc | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libcode/vx_python3_utils/wchar_argv.cc b/src/libcode/vx_python3_utils/wchar_argv.cc
index d0bd156f9..31e4ca692 100644
--- a/src/libcode/vx_python3_utils/wchar_argv.cc
+++ b/src/libcode/vx_python3_utils/wchar_argv.cc
@@ -206,10 +206,7 @@ for (int j=0; j<_argc; ++j)  {
    // we're using the len array here because
    // we don't want to call m_strlen more than
    // once on each argv value
-   if (_argv) {
-      string arg_str = _argv[j];
-      len[j] = arg_str.length();
-   }
+   if (_argv && _argv[j]) len[j] = m_strlen(_argv[j]);
 
    argv_len += len[j];