does python support overloaded methods?(py newbie)

[Jason Orendorff]

> You /might/ say that it's a bigger deal in statically-typed 
> languages, but I think that's not even the case. Consider the
> trouble that Python has handling coercions and binary
> operators cleanly.

Difficulty with type conversion rules and binary operators
is not unique to Python.  Languages with operator overloading
have these problems, Python no more so than C++ or Ruby.

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