"static" data descriptors and possibly spurious calls to __set__?

[Michele Simionato]

>...it's this last one that causes the problem. In the real code, the
>call to type.__setattr__ referred to above seems to lead to a call to
>something like cls.__base__.__dict__[attr].__set__(cls, value).

Uhm ... sounds right, but I a bit confused. Could you please give us a
doctest showing us what you get and what you would like to get?

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