[Patches] Patch 100730 -- Change creation of new instances in UserString/UserList

[Moshe Zadka]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

[Moshe]
> It's basically a refactoring of the 
> 
> return self.__class__(...)
> 
> ugliness into a single (overridable) method.
> 
> I'm +0 on that.

[Fredrik]
> -0: what's the point?  why would anyone create userlist sub-
> classes where slicing etc returns objects of *another* class?

Fredrik, one of us doesn't understand the other, but I'm not sure who. 
The patch does *not* change what happens to derived classes, *unless* they
override the _newinst() method. What is the problem with that?

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