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https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0443/ This PEP proposes a new mechanism in the #functools standard library module that provides a simple form of generic programming known as #single_dispatch#generic functions. A generic function is composed of multiple functions implementing the same operation for different types. Which implementation should be used during a call is determined by the #dispatch algorithm. When the implementation is chosen based on the type of a single argument, this is known as #single_dispatch . #overloading