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Author diekhans
Recipients diekhans
Date 2017-11-09.04:11:25
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done a setattr on a property gives a very unhelpful error message

   AttributeError: can't set attribute

it neither indicates the name of the attribute that failed or the cause.

an error such as "can't set property attribute: the_attr_name"

would be far more helpful.
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