"Matimus" <mccredie at gmail.com> wrote in message news:20149773-a485-4762-b3d0-f5be948df1b0 at 27g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... | So, it looks like as long as you want to subclass list, you are stuck | implementing both __*slice__ and __*item__ methods. Unless writing in 3.0, where they have finally disappeared.