[Tutor] Overloading in UserList

[Thomas Schulze]

Ciao,

after reading the book 'Learning Python', I started to write a simple game
programm.
I extended the UserList with some simple new methods which seem to work
fine. However I lost the slicing capability for the list.  

I am curious what the reson might be.

Thomas
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The following code:

from UserList import UserList

class TestList(UserList):
    """ Class TestList based on class UserList """
    def __init__(self, list):
        UserList.__init__(self, list)
    def purge(self, value):
        """ Method to check if a value is in list and remove all its entries """
        while value in self.data:
            self.data.remove(value)
    def ensure(self, value):
        """ Method to add a value if it is not already in list """
        if not value in self.data:
            self.data.append(value)
    def copy(self):
        """ Makes a copy of the instance """
        return TestList(self.data[:])

produced after loading it:

>>> a = [1,2,3,4]
>>> A1 = UserList(a)
>>> A2 = TestList(a)

>>> A1[:]
[1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> A2[:]
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<pyshell#14>", line 1, in ?
    A2[:]
  File "C:\Programmi\Python\Lib\UserList.py", line 23, in __getslice__
    userlist = self.__class__()
TypeError: not enough arguments; expected 2, got 1
>>> A2.copy()
[1, 2, 3, 4]