From d7cd1164c18dbf78380ce4c95bf46c7bb0ac0bb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 11:55:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Document vars behavior when __dict__ is missing (GH-21466) (GH-21939) (cherry picked from commit 802726acf6048338394a6a4750835c2cdd6a947b) Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino --- Doc/library/functions.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index d0f607296e8..b88c56e3d58 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)