diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index db2c9589da8..be0c8d5c3d0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -2433,6 +2433,10 @@ copying.  Memory is generally interpreted as simple bytes.
       A tuple of integers the length of :attr:`ndim` giving the size in bytes to
       access each element for each dimension of the array.
 
+   .. attribute:: readonly
+
+      A bool indicating whether the memory is read only.
+
    .. memoryview.suboffsets isn't documented because it only seems useful for C