New-Style-Classes: some questions

[Walter Dörwald]

Tino Lange wrote:

> Hi!
 >
> [...] 
> 
> 1) According to the current documentation
>  
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/sequence-methods.html
> 
> the special methods __getslice__ and __setslice__ are deprecated and should 
> not be implemented anymore (since 2.0) . But they exist automatically in 
> the subclassed list and are used for insertion like 
> 
> newlist[3:4] = 5
> 
> - so it seems I have to code/overload these deprecated methods. What's true 
> now? Deprecated or not?

See Python Bug #473985
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=473985&group_id=5470&atid=105470
for an explanation.

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Bye,
    Walter Dörwald