Functools: functools.singledispatch

Overview of singledispatch module

Python recently added partial support for function overloading in Python 3.4. They did this by adding a neat little decorator to the functools module called singledispatch. This decorator will transform our regular function into a single dispatch generic function. Note however that singledispatch only happens based on the first argument’s type.

Simple example of singledispatch()

Let’s take a look at an example to see how this works!