How To Enable Function Overloading In Python

Python has no native support for function overloading. Yet, there's a quick solution to it.

Function overloading (having multiple functions with the same name but different number/type of parameters) is one of the core ideas behind polymorphism in OOP.

But if you have many functions with the same name, python only considers the latest definition. This restricts writing polymorphic code.

Despite this limitation, the dispatch decorator allows you to leverage function overloading.

Find more info here: Multipledispatch.

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