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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 03:55:29 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: gh-98348: Mention ReferenceError in weakref.proxy documentation (GH-98355)
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gh-98348: Mention ReferenceError in weakref.proxy documentation (GH-98355)

(cherry picked from commit 216f45e4fec42407ff744b915523a226a0070ff1)

Co-authored-by: fancidev <fancidev@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/weakref.rst b/Doc/library/weakref.rst
index 4b0945c020f8..9a8289a7b533 100644
--- a/Doc/library/weakref.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/weakref.rst
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ See :ref:`__slots__ documentation <slots>` for details.
    prevent their use as dictionary keys.  *callback* is the same as the parameter
    of the same name to the :func:`ref` function.
 
+   Accessing an attribute of the proxy object after the referent is
+   garbage collected raises :exc:`ReferenceError`.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.8
       Extended the operator support on proxy objects to include the matrix
       multiplication operators ``@`` and ``@=``.