From 7cb6cc1346b1e694b28742856bffc9493d028c79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard <richard@rghsoftware.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:09:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] a slice of an array of a given type is still of that same
 type

---
 autoarray/abstract_ndarray.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/autoarray/abstract_ndarray.py b/autoarray/abstract_ndarray.py
index 2d9c0d7c..42238dca 100644
--- a/autoarray/abstract_ndarray.py
+++ b/autoarray/abstract_ndarray.py
@@ -239,7 +239,10 @@ def reshape(self, *args, **kwargs):
         return self._array.reshape(*args, **kwargs)
 
     def __getitem__(self, item):
-        return self._array[item]
+        result = self._array[item]
+        if isinstance(item, slice):
+            return self.with_new_array(result)
+        return result
 
     def __setitem__(self, key, value):
         if isinstance(key, (np.ndarray, AbstractNDArray, Array)):