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Closes #270

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Remove the property type added as a comment to the Conf.py files. It was
entirely cosmetic and often wrong (e.g. maps were annotated as `# list`).

Relates to issue #219.

- replace `.format` with f-strings
- replace `setattr` with direct `_properties` access in `merge`

More precisely, json data come from the JSONSink and this produces a list of non ordered items, one may call it a set.
Unfortunately JSON does not have such a concept so an ordered list is produced and the validator was naturally checking that the order was correct

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Closes #265

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Closes #273

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