From c7fa8c59adf7d18e4591e398c5418ab58a6dde92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Grant Sanderson <grantsanderson7@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:25:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Made slicing into mobjects return a Group or VGroup instead
 of a list

---
 mobject/mobject.py            | 19 +++++++++++++------
 mobject/vectorized_mobject.py |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mobject/mobject.py b/mobject/mobject.py
index c8bfc5d3..f079b330 100644
--- a/mobject/mobject.py
+++ b/mobject/mobject.py
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ class Mobject(object):
     Mathematical Object
     """
     CONFIG = {
-        "color"        : WHITE,
+        "color" : WHITE,
         "stroke_width" : DEFAULT_POINT_THICKNESS,
-        "name"         : None,
-        "dim"          : 3,
-        "target"       : None,
+        "name" : None,
+        "dim" : 3,
+        "target" : None,
     }
     def __init__(self, *submobjects, **kwargs):
         digest_config(self, kwargs)
@@ -663,8 +663,12 @@ class Mobject(object):
 
     ## Family matters
 
-    def __getitem__(self, index):
-        return self.split()[index]
+    def __getitem__(self, value):
+        self_list = self.split()
+        if isinstance(value, slice):
+            GroupClass = self.get_group_class()
+            return GroupClass(*self_list.__getitem__(value))
+        return self_list.__getitem__(value)
 
     def __iter__(self):
         return iter(self.split())
@@ -672,6 +676,9 @@ class Mobject(object):
     def __len__(self):
         return len(self.split())
 
+    def get_group_class(self):
+        return Group
+
     def split(self):
         result = [self] if len(self.points) > 0 else []
         return result + self.submobjects
diff --git a/mobject/vectorized_mobject.py b/mobject/vectorized_mobject.py
index 264181fd..4b1a37e6 100644
--- a/mobject/vectorized_mobject.py
+++ b/mobject/vectorized_mobject.py
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ class VMobject(Mobject):
         "make_smooth_after_applying_functions" : False,
     }
 
+    def get_group_class(self):
+        return VGroup
+
     ## Colors
     def init_colors(self):
         self.set_style_data(