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  Five-minute Multimethods in Python

So what are multimethods? I'll give you my own definition, as I've come to understand them: a function that has multiple versions, distinguished by the type of the arguments. (Some people go beyond this and also allow versions distinguished by the value of the arguments; I'm not addressing this here.)As a very simple example, let's suppose we have a function that we want to define for two ints, two floats, or two strings. Of course, we could define it as follows:def foo(a, b): if isinstance(a, int) and isinstance(b, int): ...code for two ints... elif isinstance(a, float) and is...

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