Is this the correct way to emulate C++ function overloading?

[Courageous]

>Is this the correct way of doing this?

No, not really. As another poster pointed out, you can determine
the type of arguments at runtime with the right function calls.

>on it's type/class, right? But what when you don't need to create
>objects or want to do it with built-in types? Is there another way?

Yep. Python is a _dynamic_ language.

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