function "overloading"

[Gerrit Holl]

Janos Blazi wrote on 948468281:
> I have 3 classes called Tline, Tsegment and Tpoint, repectively. I'd like to
> write a function "subset" that cheks if one of the instances of the above
> classes  is a subset of another instance (as long as this is sensible).
> 
> I am afraid I cannot overload the name "subset" and additionally when subset
> has control it cannot decide the type of its arguments: Does this mean I
> have to write several *different* subset functions having different names?

>>> print issubclass.__doc__
issubclass(C, B) -> Boolean

Return whether class C is a subclass (i.e., a derived class) of class B.

regards,
Gerrit.

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