add a __dict__ descr for IOBase (closes #12878)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_io.py b/Lib/test/test_io.py
index 72c9a2d..0dc9d6d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_io.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_io.py
@@ -610,6 +610,17 @@
         self.assertEqual(rawio.read(2), None)
         self.assertEqual(rawio.read(2), b"")
 
+    def test_types_have_dict(self):
+        test = (
+            self.IOBase(),
+            self.RawIOBase(),
+            self.TextIOBase(),
+            self.StringIO(),
+            self.BytesIO()
+        )
+        for obj in test:
+            self.assertTrue(hasattr(obj, "__dict__"))
+
 class CIOTest(IOTest):
 
     def test_IOBase_finalize(self):