Add tests for the collections helper class and sync-up with py3k branch.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/collections.py b/Lib/collections.py
index 2f19459..98c4325 100644
--- a/Lib/collections.py
+++ b/Lib/collections.py
@@ -694,6 +694,15 @@ class _ChainMap(MutableMapping):
 
     __copy__ = copy
 
+    def new_child(self):                        # like Django's Context.push()
+        'New ChainMap with a new dict followed by all previous maps.'
+        return self.__class__({}, *self.maps)
+
+    @property
+    def parents(self):                          # like Django's Context.pop()
+        'New ChainMap from maps[1:].'
+        return self.__class__(*self.maps[1:])
+
     def __setitem__(self, key, value):
         self.maps[0][key] = value