Function overloading PREMIUM

Series: Functions
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Trey Hunner
4 min. read 3 min. video Python 3.8—3.12

Python doesn't have function overloading.

Instead of overloading we have overwriting

What if we have a function that we'd like to use with different arguments depending on the situation?

For example, we'd like to make a greet function that can be called with nothing or can be called with a single argument:

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