QST: Subclassed lists are not allowed as indexers of dfs in v1.3.0

[pwwang]

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>>> from pandas import DataFrame
>>> df = DataFrame(dict(x=[1,2,3]))
>>> class MyList(list): 
...     ...
...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> key = MyList(['x'])
>>> key
['x']
>>> 
>>> df[key]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
    df[key]
  File "/.../python3.7/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py", line 3445, in __getitem__
    if com.is_bool_indexer(key):
  File "/...python3.7/site-packages/pandas/core/common.py", line 146, in is_bool_indexer
    return len(key) > 0 and lib.is_bool_list(key)
TypeError: Argument 'obj' has incorrect type (expected list, got MyList)

This works in v1.2.*.

It is mentioned in the docstring of is_bool_indexer that

with _is_boolean set are considered boolean indexers.

But I had no luck with that property being set with MyList.

Not sure if this is an intended change or not. I did find any documentation for this.

[pwwang]

Now I think this is a bug.

#42433