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

miss-islington · plokmijnuhby · web-flow · commit e1220814321b · 2024-01-24T20:05:24.000Z
(cherry picked from commit 6888ccc) Co-authored-by: plokmijnuhby <39633434+plokmijnuhby@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git 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
