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From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:05:12 +0100
Subject: [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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 Doc/library/types.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

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
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