One more time on this turkey, but duller instead of cleverer.

Curious:  The docs say __getslice__ has been deprecated since 2.0, but
list.__getitem__ still doesn't work if you pass it a slice.  This makes
it a lot clearer to emulate a list by *being* a list <wink>.

Bugfix candidate.  Michael, just pile this patch on top of the others
that went by -- no need to try to pick these apart.