creating custom arrays / extending java.util.ArrayList

Hi,

Trying to create a custom array structure. Ideally I would like to 
subclass the built in list, but it seems this feature won't be 
available till version 2.2 (as per CPython) so instead I am extending 
java.util.ArrayList as per below. This works fine, and I can access the 
object using standard array syntax (x[0] .. etc). However when I look 
under the hood / overload some of the built in methods, it appears they 
are different from CPython. In particular, __repr__ gets called as 
expected but __getitem__ does not (see below). (If I run the code in 
CPython 2,2, replacing ArrayList with list, it works as expected). 
Perhaps someone can shed some light on what is happening here.

thanks!

Justin

from java.util import *

class test(ArrayList):

        def __getitem__(self,i):
                print "__getitem__"+str(i)
                return ArrayList.get(self,i)

        def __repr__(self):
                print "__repr__"
                r=""
                for i in self:
                        r=r+str(i)+chr(10)
                return r

def main():
        r=test()
        r.add("one")
        r.add("two")
        print r # successfully calls __repr__
        print r[0] # returns the right result, but doens't call 
__getitem__

main()



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