if one explitely initializes UserList in a class derived 
form Userlist, __getslice__, __*add__ and __mul__ do not 
work.

Consider the following code:

>>> import UserList
>>> class UL(UserList.UserList):
...    def __init__(self):
...       UserList.UserList.__init__(self)
... 
>>> ul=UL()
>>> ul.append(0); ul.append(1)
>>> ul[0:2]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "hd e18 yosi:programs:programing:python 
2.0c1:lib:UserList.py", line 27, in __getslice__
    return self.__class__(self.data[i:j])
TypeError: too many arguments; expected 1, got 2


A possible solution is to change UserList.py from

    def __getslice__(self, i, j):
        i = max(i, 0); j = max(j, 0)
        return self.__class__(self.data[i:j])

to

    def __getslice__(self, i, j):
        i = max(i, 0); j = max(j, 0)
        return self.data[i:j]

and the other methods accordingly. If for some reasons 
this is not possible, consider the code in Python1.5.2 
where __getslice__ works (but __*add__ and __mul__ 
don't)

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The subclass you've created -- UL -- is broken.  A subclass
of 
UserList should included an __init__ that supports an
initial list.  The definition of __getslice__ is correct,
because operations on
a UserList should return a UserList -- not a real list.