STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment:

> I'd argue that it's an implementation detail. Documenting it might be nice as 
> some projects such as pytest do use it but I don't think it would make sense 
> in setattr() or getattr() since all they do (at least in this case) is 
> assign/retrieve from the __dict__. One thing to note is that __slots__ 
> doesn't accept them.

Maybe it's obvious to you, but the question is asked again and again, at least 
once per year. So it seems like we need to document it somewhere.

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