Steven Bethard wrote:
Unfortunately, I don't think __getslice__ can be removed from
list (and str and tuple) because of backwards compatibility constraints...
Wouldn't it work to have __getslice__ call __getitem__? And, since that would be too much of a performance hit, have it check whether its type is list (or str or tuple), and only call __getitem__ if it is not (i.e., only for subclasses). I don't think that would be too bad.
Subclasses would still be free to override __getslice__, but wouldn't have to.
Yeah, that doesn't seem like it would be too bad. Probably someone would have to actually run some benchmarks to see what kind of performance hit you get... But it would definitely solve the OP's problem...
Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
