From 6b16d938d6d1ccb443815e20e8812deed274dc09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joannah Nanjekye <33177550+nanjekyejoannah@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 03:53:11 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-15542: Documentation incorrectly suggests __init__ called
 after direct  __new__ call (GH-15478)

---
 Doc/reference/datamodel.rst | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 1dd8e42ef87..d1702ccb641 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1166,10 +1166,10 @@ Basic customization
    with appropriate arguments and then modifying the newly-created instance
    as necessary before returning it.
 
-   If :meth:`__new__` returns an 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 :meth:`__new__`.
+   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
+   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.
 
    If :meth:`__new__` does not return an instance of *cls*, then the new instance's
    :meth:`__init__` method will not be invoked.