From: Andre Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 22:29:34 +0000 (-0300)
Subject: Document vars behavior when __dict__ is missing (#21466)
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Document vars behavior when __dict__ is missing (#21466)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 43c47c1da943..d381d43d8e99 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1734,6 +1734,9 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
    locals dictionary is only useful for reads since updates to the locals
    dictionary are ignored.
 
+   A :exc:`TypeError` exception is raised if an object is specified but
+   it doesn't have a :attr:`~object.__dict__` attribute (for example, if
+   its class defines the :attr:`~object.__slots__` attribute).
 
 .. function:: zip(*iterables, strict=False)