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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2020-08-22 18:55:00 (GMT)
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Document vars behavior when __dict__ is missing (GH-21466) (GH-21939)
(cherry picked from commit 802726acf6048338394a6a4750835c2cdd6a947b) Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>
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@@ -1720,6 +1720,9 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
locals dictionary is only useful for reads since updates to the locals
dictionary are ignored.
+ A :exc:`TypeError` exception is raised if an object is specified but
+ it doesn't have a :attr:`~object.__dict__` attribute (for example, if
+ its class defines the :attr:`~object.__slots__` attribute).
.. function:: zip(*iterables)