overloading constructor in python?

[Paddy]

I guess in python we use two idioms to cover most of the uses of
mulltiple constructors:
 1) Duck typing were for example if you do:

class C1(object):
  def __init__(self, n):
    n = float(n)

n could be an integer, a floating point number,, or a string
representing a float.

2) Default values to parameters:

class C2(object):
  def __init__(self, x=None, y=None, s=""):
    pass

C2 can be initialised with any one, two, three, or zero arguments;
those not given would take the default values shown to the right of the
equals sign above.

- Cheers, Paddy.
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