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diff --git a/Doc/howto/annotations.rst b/Doc/howto/annotations.rst index 78f3704ba5d..d7deb6c6bc1 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/annotations.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/annotations.rst @@ -248,4 +248,9 @@ quirks by using :func:`annotationlib.get_annotations` on Python 3.14+ or :func:`inspect.get_annotations` on Python 3.10+. On earlier versions of Python, you can avoid these bugs by accessing the annotations from the class's :attr:`~type.__dict__` -(e.g., ``cls.__dict__.get('__annotations__', None)``). +(for example, ``cls.__dict__.get('__annotations__', None)``). + +In some versions of Python, instances of classes may have an ``__annotations__`` +attribute. However, this is not supported functionality. If you need the +annotations of an instance, you can use :func:`type` to access its class +(for example, ``annotationlib.get_annotations(type(myinstance))`` on Python 3.14+). |