Python Language Tutorial => Indexing custom classes: __getitem_

Example

class MultiIndexingList:
    def __init__(self, value):
        self.value = value
        
    def __repr__(self):
        return repr(self.value)
    
    def __getitem__(self, item):
        if isinstance(item, (int, slice)):
            return self.__class__(self.value[item])
        return [self.value[i] for i in item]
    
    def __setitem__(self, item, value):
        if isinstance(item, int):
            self.value[item] = value
        elif isinstance(item, slice):
            raise ValueError('Cannot interpret slice with multiindexing')
        else:
            for i in item:
                if isinstance(i, slice):
                    raise ValueError('Cannot interpret slice with multiindexing')
                self.value[i] = value
    
    def __delitem__(self, item):
        if isinstance(item, int):
            del self.value[item]
        elif isinstance(item, slice):
            del self.value[item]
        else:
            if any(isinstance(elem, slice) for elem in item):
                raise ValueError('Cannot interpret slice with multiindexing')
            item = sorted(item, reverse=True)
            for elem in item:
                del self.value[elem]

This allows slicing and indexing for element access:

a = MultiIndexingList([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8])
a
# Out: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
a[1,5,2,6,1]
# Out: [2, 6, 3, 7, 2]
a[4, 1, 5:, 2, ::2]
# Out: [5, 2, [6, 7, 8], 3, [1, 3, 5, 7]]
#       4|1-|----50:---|2-|-----::2-----   <-- indicated which element came from which index

While setting and deleting elements only allows for comma seperated integer indexing (no slicing):

a[4] = 1000
a
# Out: [1, 2, 3, 4, 1000, 6, 7, 8]
a[2,6,1] = 100
a
# Out: [1, 100, 100, 4, 1000, 6, 100, 8]
del a[5]
a
# Out: [1, 100, 100, 4, 1000, 100, 8]
del a[4,2,5]
a
# Out: [1, 100, 4, 8]

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