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Either handle or disallow setting axes via Array.__setattr__ #1200

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@gdementen

It can be natural to change an axis using setattr (as gb tried to do) but it leads to a very confusing problem where the real array axis is different from the attribute axis. For example, to change the type of an axis:

>>> arr = ndtest('a=1,2,total')[:'2']
>>> arr.a.dtype
dtype('<U21')
>>> arr.a = arr.a.astype(int)
>>> arr.a.dtype
dtype('int64')
>>> arr.axes['a'].dtype
dtype('<U21')
>>> arr.a is arr.axes['a']
False

We should either make it work or make it an explicit error.

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