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@@ -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