"""A more or less complete user-defined wrapper around list objects."""
-class UserList:
+import collections
+
+class UserList(collections.MutableSequence):
def __init__(self, initlist=None):
self.data = []
if initlist is not None:
self.data.extend(other.data)
else:
self.data.extend(other)
+
+collections.MutableSequence.register(UserList)
This module requires Python 1.6 or later.
"""
import sys
+import collections
__all__ = ["UserString","MutableString"]
-class UserString:
+class UserString(collections.Sequence):
def __init__(self, seq):
if isinstance(seq, str):
self.data = seq
def upper(self): return self.__class__(self.data.upper())
def zfill(self, width): return self.__class__(self.data.zfill(width))
-class MutableString(UserString):
+collections.Sequence.register(UserString)
+
+class MutableString(UserString, collections.MutableSequence):
"""mutable string objects
Python strings are immutable objects. This has the advantage, that
self.data *= n
return self
+collections.MutableSequence.register(MutableString)
+
if __name__ == "__main__":
# execute the regression test to stdout, if called as a script:
import os