how to dispatch objects depending on their class

[Curzio Basso]

cmedcoff at hotmail.com wrote:

> Visitor Pattern?

Actually, I thought what I was describing was a visitor pattern but I am 
probably wrong.

Is it correct that in the visitor pattern the dispatching would be 
delegated to the classes, like with:

class A(object):
   def __init__(self):
     pass
   def accept(self, visitor)
     visitor.do_something_with_A(self)

class B(A):
   def __init__(self):
     A.__init__(self)
   def accept(self, visitor)
     visitor.do_something_with_B(self)

class Visitor(object):
   def __init__(self):
     pass
   def do_something_with_A(self, object):
     pass
   def do_something_with_B(self, object):
     pass

Then I would call

a = A()
b = B()
v = Visitor()
a.accept(v)
b.accept(v)

Is this correct?

thanks, curzio