Python's idiom for function overloads

[Jacek Generowicz]

Philippe Fremy <phil at freehackers.org> writes:

> 	Hi Frans,
> 
> > Since Python doesn't have static typing, how is the same result as
> > traditional function overloads results in acheived?
> 
> 
> With dynamic typing obviously. :-)
> 
> You can not reproduce the C++ overload idiom

Of course you can. Use a multimethod of some sort.

The canonical answer to the OQ, of course, includes things like
"Consider whether you really want/need to do this" and "duck typing".

Frequently, in Python, code which checks for types, rather than
checking for features, ends up being excessively restrictive and
insufficiently general.