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    … is not instantiable Previous error message suggested to use cls.__new__(), which obviously does not work. Now the error message is the same as for cls(...).
| Thanks @serhiy-storchaka for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.13, 3.14. | 
    
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… is not instantiable (pythonGH-135981) Previous error message suggested to use cls.__new__(), which obviously does not work. Now the error message is the same as for cls(...). (cherry picked from commit c45f4f3) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
| Sorry, @serhiy-storchaka, I could not cleanly backport this to   | 
| GH-136030 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.14 branch. | 
    
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…ere cls is not instantiable (pythonGH-135981) Previous error message suggested to use cls.__new__(), which obviously does not work. Now the error message is the same as for cls(...). (cherry picked from commit c45f4f3) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
| GH-136031 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.13 branch. | 
    
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…ere cls is not instantiable (pythonGH-135981) Previous error message suggested to use cls.__new__(), which obviously does not work. Now the error message is the same as for cls(...). (cherry picked from commit c45f4f3) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
    
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…s is not instantiable (GH-135981) (GH-136030) Previous error message suggested to use cls.__new__(), which obviously does not work. Now the error message is the same as for cls(...). (cherry picked from commit c45f4f3) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
    
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Previous error message suggested to use cls.new(), which obviously does not work. Now the error message is the same as for cls(...).
__new__on non-instaniable objects #78465