The Correct Way to Overload Functions in Python

Were you taught that function overloading isn’t possible in Python? Here’s how you can do it with generic functions and multiple dispatch!

Martin Heinz
Towards Data Science
6 min readMay 31, 2021

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Function overloading is a common programming pattern which seems to be reserved to statically-typed, compiled languages. Yet there’s an easy way to…

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