[3.11] gh-96746: Docs: Clear up Py_TPFLAGS_DISALLOW_INSTANTIATION inheritance (GH-99002) (GH-99212)

gh-96746: Docs: Clear up Py_TPFLAGS_DISALLOW_INSTANTIATION inheritance (GH-99002)

The flag is not inherited, but its effect -- a NULL tp_new -- is.

Drop hints for people who come here wanting to “disallow instantiation”.
(cherry picked from commit 1438b77)

Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst

@@ -1213,6 +1213,17 @@ and :c:type:`PyType_Type` effectively act as defaults.)
       **Inheritance:**
 
       This flag is not inherited.
+      However, subclasses will not be instantiable unless they provide a
+      non-NULL :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_new` (which is only possible
+      via the C API).
+
+      .. note::
+
+         To disallow instantiating a class directly but allow instantiating
+         its subclasses (e.g. for an :term:`abstract base class`),
+         do not use this flag.
+         Instead, make :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_new` only succeed for
+         subclasses.
 
       .. versionadded:: 3.10