Method overloading?

[Troy Melhase]

On 14 Feb 2007 20:54:31 -0800, placid <Bulkan at gmail.com> wrote:
> class Test:
>     def __init__(self):
>         pass
>
>     def puts(self, str):
>         print str
>
>     def puts(self, str,str2):
>         print str,str2

you might look into the overloading module and its decorator.  source
is in the sandbox:

http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/overload/overloading.py

using it, you could re-write your example as:

#
from overloading import overloaded

class Test(object):

    @overloaded
    def puts(self, S):
        print S

   @puts.register(object, str, str)
    def puts_X(self, S, S2):
        print S, S2

two things to note.  first, i changed your class to derive from
object.  I don't know if that's required, but i suspect it is.

second, i changed your argument names.  the argument names in your
example shadow built-in names.  you shouldn't do that in any case, but
it could become especially confusing using the overloaded decorator,
which relies on argument type to select the correct method.