robustify UserList constructor -- will now accept any sequence
add test cases for non-UserList class, tuple, & string
diff --git a/Lib/UserList.py b/Lib/UserList.py
index 1680327..7bd0298 100644
--- a/Lib/UserList.py
+++ b/Lib/UserList.py
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
"""A more or less complete user-defined wrapper around list objects."""
class UserList:
- def __init__(self, list=None):
+ def __init__(self, initlist=None):
self.data = []
- if list is not None:
- if type(list) == type(self.data):
- self.data[:] = list
+ if initlist is not None:
+ # XXX should this accept an arbitary sequence?
+ if type(initlist) == type(self.data):
+ self.data[:] = initlist
+ elif isinstance(initlist, UserList):
+ self.data[:] = initlist.data[:]
else:
- self.data[:] = list.data[:]
+ self.data = list(initlist)
def __repr__(self): return repr(self.data)
def __cmp__(self, other):
if isinstance(other, UserList):