Document vars behavior when __dict__ is missing (GH-21466) (GH-21941)

(cherry picked from commit 802726a)

Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Doc/library/functions.rst

@@ -1714,6 +1714,9 @@ 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)