Method Overloading Patterns

Python has no signature-based overloading; use default arguments, *args or functools.singledispatch instead.

Intermediate

from functools import singledispatch

@singledispatch
def describe(x): return "something"

@describe.register
def _(x: int): return "an integer"

@describe.register
def _(x: list): return f"a list of {len(x)}"

typing.overload only helps type checkers; at runtime the last definition wins.

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