You didn't pass the list that came in, you passed None.

Christopher Spears wrote:

>  I am creating a new class based on UserList called
>  UList.  Here is the code:
>  
>  import UserList
>  
>  class UList(UserList.UserList):
>      def __init__(self, initlist=None):
                                  ^^^^^ defines a default value
>          UserList.UserList.__init__(self,
>  initlist=None)
           ^^^^^ passes None

You want (the slightly odd looking) initlist=initlist
which will pass your variable named initlist to the argument that
has the same name, initlist.

>  
>  When I tested the class, the following happened:
>  
>  
> >>>import UList
> >>>list = [1,2,3]
> >>>a = UList.UList(list)
> >>>a
>  
>  []
>  
>  What gives?
>  -Chris
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