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plokmijnuhby committed Jan 24, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -398,6 +398,10 @@ Standard names are defined for the following types:
data members which use standard conversion functions; it has the same purpose
as the :class:`property` type, but for classes defined in extension modules.

In addition, when a class is defined with a :attr:`~object.__slots__` attribute, then for
each slot, an instance of :class:`!MemberDescriptorType` will be added as an attribute
on the class. This allows the slot to appear in the class's :attr:`~object.__dict__`.

.. impl-detail::

In other implementations of Python, this type may be identical to
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