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[3.11] gh-108731: Add description of __slots__ to MemberDescriptorType docs (GH-108745) (GH-114537)
(cherry picked from commit 6888cccac0776d965cc38a7240e1bdbacb952b91)
Co-authored-by: plokmijnuhby <39633434+plokmijnuhby@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/types.rst b/Doc/library/types.rst index da10cf1..4f468da 100644 --- a/Doc/library/types.rst +++ b/Doc/library/types.rst @@ -356,6 +356,10 @@ Standard names are defined for the following types: data members which use standard conversion functions; it has the same purpose as the :class:`property` type, but for classes defined in extension modules. + In addition, when a class is defined with a :attr:`~object.__slots__` attribute, then for + each slot, an instance of :class:`!MemberDescriptorType` will be added as an attribute + on the class. This allows the slot to appear in the class's :attr:`~object.__dict__`. + .. impl-detail:: In other implementations of Python, this type may be identical to |