Quoting Fuzzyman: "If you subclass list then you will need to override all methods that can set items."
Overiding all those methods is too much of an effort. I don't really need them. I'll just have an object that uses a list internally, and define only the two methods I really need: extend() and getItems(). That way I retain full control over what goes into the private obj._list, without the superfluous work of overriding all those methods I don't really need. Thanks for your help, Xif -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
