PyType_Type is documented incorrectly

[da-woods]

BPO	41886
Nosy	@ammaraskar, @miss-islington, @da-woods
PRs	bpo-41886: Fix documented type of PyType_Type #22454 [3.9] bpo-41886: Fix documented type of PyType_Type (GH-22454) #27583 [3.10] bpo-41886: Fix documented type of PyType_Type (GH-22454) #27584

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closed_at = <Date 2021-08-03.17:51:54.406>
created_at = <Date 2020-09-29.20:58:02.628>
labels = ['3.11', 'type-bug', '3.9', '3.10', 'docs']
title = 'PyType_Type is documented incorrectly'
updated_at = <Date 2021-08-03.17:51:54.405>
user = 'https://github.com/da-woods'

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[da-woods]

In the documentation PyType_Type is listed as a "PyObject*" (https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/type.html#c.PyType_Type). This is misleading because it is both not a pointer and is a PyTypeObject.

Other type objects are documented as "PyTypeObject" (see unicode https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/unicode.html#c.PyUnicode_Type as an arbitrary example) so I think the documentation is just inconsistent for PyType_Type alone.