remove tautological condition (closes #22954)

diff --git a/Objects/typeobject.c b/Objects/typeobject.c
index d0ac3ac9a8843f344e33ef65d5a507d8144e78cb..619ac9be1725b4e9c6a3cfcfccaf905a72e0e0bb 100644 (file)
--- a/Objects/typeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/typeobject.c
@@ -4798,7 +4798,7 @@ tp_new_wrapper(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
                      "%s.__new__(%s) is not safe, use %s.__new__()",
                      type->tp_name,
                      subtype->tp_name,
-                     staticbase == NULL ? "?" : staticbase->tp_name);
+                     staticbase->tp_name);
         return NULL;
     }