From 396e8ee6b95f9761cc480cb0e281675e00f6841c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Hilton-Balfe <gobot1234yt@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2023 23:04:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Allow returning Literals in __new__

Unblocks https://github.com/python/typeshed/pull/10465
---
 mypy/checker.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mypy/checker.py b/mypy/checker.py
index f2873c7d58e4..06d770665ea9 100644
--- a/mypy/checker.py
+++ b/mypy/checker.py
@@ -1475,7 +1475,8 @@ def check___new___signature(self, fdef: FuncDef, typ: CallableType) -> None:
                 "but must return a subtype of",
             )
         elif not isinstance(
-            get_proper_type(bound_type.ret_type), (AnyType, Instance, TupleType, UninhabitedType)
+            get_proper_type(bound_type.ret_type),
+            (AnyType, Instance, TupleType, UninhabitedType, LiteralType),
         ):
             self.fail(
                 message_registry.NON_INSTANCE_NEW_TYPE.format(