From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:55:00 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Document vars behavior when __dict__ is missing (GH-21466) (GH-21939) X-Git-Tag: v3.9.0rc2~75 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d7cd1164c18dbf78380ce4c95bf46c7bb0ac0bb7;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Document vars behavior when __dict__ is missing (GH-21466) (GH-21939) (cherry picked from commit 802726acf6048338394a6a4750835c2cdd6a947b) Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino --- diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index d0f607296e86..b88c56e3d586 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1720,6 +1720,9 @@ 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)