overloading constructor in python?

[lennart at kommunicera.umea.se]

Larry Bates wrote:
[...]
> In python it is called duck typing but you don't need separate
> constructors:
>
> def __init__(self, c):
>     if isinstance(c, int): ...do stuff...
>     elif isinstance(c, list): ...do stuff...
>     elif isinstance(c, tuple): ...do stuff...
>     else:
>     .
>     .
>     .
>
> Remember Python doesn't care what c is and doesn't do
> type checking so you can do anything you want.
> 

Thanx for the info.

/Lennart




> -Larry Bates