https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e1220814321bd0bc773f094ca0c72b8cf00f5dbf
commit: e1220814321bd0bc773f094ca0c72b8cf00f5dbf
branch: 3.12
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]>
date: 2024-01-24T20:05:24Z
summary:

[3.12] gh-108731: Add description of __slots__ to MemberDescriptorType docs 
(GH-108745) (GH-114536)

(cherry picked from commit 6888cccac0776d965cc38a7240e1bdbacb952b91)

Co-authored-by: plokmijnuhby <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/library/types.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/types.rst b/Doc/library/types.rst
index 3ce7ede4dec3a5..f9e0ba4567bef7 100644
--- a/Doc/library/types.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/types.rst
@@ -396,6 +396,10 @@ 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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