Pythonic Circular List

Question

Say I have a list,

l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

I want to grab the index of an arbitrary element and the values of its neighbors. For examp

Answer 1

If you want it as a class, I whipped up this quick CircularList:

import operator

class CircularList(list):
    def __getitem__(self, x):
        if isinstance(x, slice):
            return [self[x] for x in self._rangeify(x)]

        index = operator.index(x)
        try:
            return super().__getitem__(index % len(self))
        except ZeroDivisionError:
            raise IndexError('list index out of range')

    def _rangeify(self, slice):
        start, stop, step = slice.start, slice.stop, slice.step
        if start is None:
            start = 0
        if stop is None:
            stop = len(self)
        if step is None:
            step = 1
        return range(start, stop, step)

It supports slicing, so

CircularList(range(5))[1:10] == [1, 2, 3, 4, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4]