From 8a6fc6d82aaa1d0b4af5fdb835694f0ad5e8e9e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: plokmijnuhby <39633434+plokmijnuhby@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:58:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] gh-108731: Add description of __slots__ to MemberDescriptorType docs (GH-108745) (cherry picked from commit 6888cccac0776d965cc38a7240e1bdbacb952b91) Co-authored-by: plokmijnuhby <39633434+plokmijnuhby@users.noreply.github.com> --- Doc/library/types.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/types.rst b/Doc/library/types.rst index da10cf1d33e621..4f468da8a1f6f6 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