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[carapace]

Knowing nothing more about this codebase than the above, I would fire everyone and make the CEO's nephew write it. It could hardly turn out worse and it would be a lot cheaper.

(I'm joking, but only barely.)

[RubyPinch → carapace]

The reduced usecase (story?) is the following

The customer requests the following

    @?
    class somename (?):
        an_attr_a = ADescriptor(somestuff)
        an_attr_1 = ADescriptor(somestuff)
        an_attr_a1 = ADescriptor(somestuff)

One of their expectations is that the attributes have their definition order stored somewhere. You may either use the decorator method, or the metaclass method