bpo-45104: Clarify when __init__ is called (GH-28210) (GH-28213)

(cherry picked from commit fa15df77f02ba4a66ba0b71989381a426038be01)

Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index bf391ef1ff2c5fd0fc6c043c13908155e7201f59..20d6e326b8b5ee96466140feb7e779d87725c609 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1200,7 +1200,7 @@ Basic customization
    as necessary before returning it.
 
    If :meth:`__new__` is invoked during object construction and it returns an
-   instance or subclass of *cls*, then the new instance’s :meth:`__init__` method
+   instance of *cls*, then the new instance’s :meth:`__init__` method
    will be invoked like ``__init__(self[, ...])``, where *self* is the new instance
    and the remaining arguments are the same as were passed to the object constructor.