diff --git a/neo/core/epoch.py b/neo/core/epoch.py
index df3354578..b4aa1eb1a 100644
--- a/neo/core/epoch.py
+++ b/neo/core/epoch.py
@@ -179,6 +179,14 @@ def __getitem__(self, i):
         obj.labels = self.labels[i]
         return obj
 
+    def __getslice__(self, i, j):
+        '''
+        Get a slice from :attr:`i` to :attr:`j`.attr[0]
+
+        Doesn't get called in Python 3, :meth:`__getitem__` is called instead
+        '''
+        return self.__getitem__(slice(i, j))
+
     @property
     def times(self):
         return pq.Quantity(self)
diff --git a/neo/test/coretest/test_analogsignal.py b/neo/test/coretest/test_analogsignal.py
index 56dd67870..c0f9e543e 100644
--- a/neo/test/coretest/test_analogsignal.py
+++ b/neo/test/coretest/test_analogsignal.py
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ def test__comparison_as_indexing_double_trace(self):
     def test__indexing_keeps_order_across_channels(self):
         # AnalogSignals with 10 traces each having 5 samples (eg. data[0] = [0,10,20,30,40])
         data = np.array([range(10), range(10, 20), range(20, 30), range(30, 40), range(40, 50)])
-        mask = np.full((5, 10), fill_value=False)
+        mask = np.full((5, 10), fill_value=False, dtype=bool)
         # selecting one entry per trace
         mask[[0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 2, 4, 3, 1, 4], range(10)] = True
 
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ def test__indexing_keeps_order_across_channels(self):
     def test__indexing_keeps_order_across_time(self):
         # AnalogSignals with 10 traces each having 5 samples (eg. data[0] = [0,10,20,30,40])
         data = np.array([range(10), range(10, 20), range(20, 30), range(30, 40), range(40, 50)])
-        mask = np.full((5, 10), fill_value=False)
+        mask = np.full((5, 10), fill_value=False, dtype=bool)
         # selecting two entries per trace
         temporal_ids = [0, 1, 0, 3, 1, 2, 4, 2, 1, 4] + [4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1]
         mask[temporal_ids, list(range(10)) + list(range(10))] = True
diff --git a/neo/test/coretest/test_irregularysampledsignal.py b/neo/test/coretest/test_irregularysampledsignal.py
index 89717c745..17e5d43c7 100644
--- a/neo/test/coretest/test_irregularysampledsignal.py
+++ b/neo/test/coretest/test_irregularysampledsignal.py
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ def test__comparison_as_indexing_multi_trace(self):
     def test__indexing_keeps_order_across_channels(self):
         # AnalogSignals with 10 traces each having 5 samples (eg. data[0] = [0,10,20,30,40])
         data = np.array([range(10), range(10, 20), range(20, 30), range(30, 40), range(40, 50)])
-        mask = np.full((5, 10), fill_value=False)
+        mask = np.full((5, 10), fill_value=False, dtype=bool)
         # selecting one entry per trace
         mask[[0, 1, 0, 3, 0, 2, 4, 3, 1, 4], range(10)] = True
 
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ def test__indexing_keeps_order_across_channels(self):
     def test__indexing_keeps_order_across_time(self):
         # AnalogSignals with 10 traces each having 5 samples (eg. data[0] = [0,10,20,30,40])
         data = np.array([range(10), range(10, 20), range(20, 30), range(30, 40), range(40, 50)])
-        mask = np.full((5, 10), fill_value=False)
+        mask = np.full((5, 10), fill_value=False, dtype=bool)
         # selecting two entries per trace
         temporal_ids = [0, 1, 0, 3, 1, 2, 4, 2, 1, 4] + [4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1]
         mask[temporal_ids, list(range(10)) + list(range(10))] = True