newbie-question: overloading methods

[Emile van Sebille]

"merman" <merman at freenet.de> wrote in message
news:3ce645b7$0$23712$9b622d9e at news.freenet.de...
> Hi,
>
> is there a way to overload methods like in C++ or Java?
>

Does this help?

>>> def test(arg1=None, arg2=None, arg3=None, *args, **kwargs):
...     print arg1, arg2, arg3, args, kwargs
...
>>> test(1,2)
1 2 None () {}
>>> test(1,2,3,4)
1 2 3 (4,) {}
>>> test(1,2,3,4,5,helpmode=1)
1 2 3 (4, 5) {'helpmode': 1}
>>>

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Emile van Sebille
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