gh-112451: Prohibit subclassing of datetime.timezone. (#114190)

This is consistent with C-extension datetime.timezone.

Author: felixxm

Lib/_pydatetime.py

@@ -2347,6 +2347,9 @@ def __new__(cls, offset, name=_Omitted):
                              "timedelta(hours=24).")
         return cls._create(offset, name)
 
+    def __init_subclass__(cls):
+        raise TypeError("type 'datetime.timezone' is not an acceptable base type")
+
     @classmethod
     def _create(cls, offset, name=None):
         self = tzinfo.__new__(cls)

Lib/test/datetimetester.py

@@ -301,6 +301,10 @@ def test_inheritance(self):
         self.assertIsInstance(timezone.utc, tzinfo)
         self.assertIsInstance(self.EST, tzinfo)
 
+    def test_cannot_subclass(self):
+        with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
+            class MyTimezone(timezone): pass
+
     def test_utcoffset(self):
         dummy = self.DT
         for h in [0, 1.5, 12]:

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-01-24-20-11-46.gh-issue-112451.7YrG4p.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Prohibit subclassing pure-Python :class:`datetime.timezone`. This is consistent
+with C-extension implementation. Patch by Mariusz Felisiak.