поиск атрибута Python без волшебства дескриптора?

Most descriptors do their job when accessed as instance attribute only. So it's convenient to return itself when it's accessed for class:

class FixedValueProperty(object):
    def __init__(self, value):
        self.value = value
    def __get__(self, inst, cls):
        if inst is None:
            return self
        return self.value

This allows you to get descriptor itself:

>>> class C(object):
...     prop = FixedValueProperty('abc')
... 
>>> o = C()
>>> o.prop
'abc'
>>> C.prop
<__main__.FixedValueProperty object at 0xb7eb290c>
>>> C.prop.value
'abc'
>>> type(o).prop.value
'abc'

Note, that this works for (most?) built-in descriptors too:

>>> class C(object):
...     @property
...     def prop(self):
...         return 'abc'
... 
>>> C.prop
<property object at 0xb7eb0b6c>
>>> C.prop.fget
<function prop at 0xb7ea36f4>

Accessing descriptor could be useful when you need to extent it in subclass, but there is a better way to do this.