Nick Coghlan added the comment:
To get the behaviour you're requesting, you need to use a custom metaclass and
define the property there. The reason is that the descriptor machinery is
bypassed entirely when setting or deleting an attribute on the class itself:
class Example:
...
Mark Lawrence added the comment:
@the mulhern sorry that this slipped under our radar.
@Nick I've put you on the nosy list as you actioned #16267 which is referenced
in msg211416.
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New submission from the mulhern:
The problems is that it is quite possible to define a property using @property
in a class and then later to realize that it really ought to be a class method,
not an instance method. But then, if you change it to a class method, using
@classmethod annotation,
