[Jython-users] overloading methods

[Tom W. <to...@ss...>]

Please pardon my basic "newbie" question...I've not been able to find the
answer to this in the tutorial, in O'Reilly, or thru web searching.

I am making a .py file with a bunch of methods.  I'd like to overload (at
least) one of them, like:

def mything(a,b,c)
  print a,b,c
def mything(a,b)
  print a,b

What I've found is that only the last one in the .py file seems to be called
every time.  If I try to reference the above with:

file.mything(1,2,3)

I get an error message like: "not enough arguments; expected 3 got 2".

I've overcome this by using a single method like:

def mything(*a)

and looking at the len(a).  Since Jython does such a great job when trying to
figure out which overloaded method to use in a Java class, I thought I must be
missing something. Is there a better/preferred way to accomplish this?

Thanks ahead for your advice & guidance,

tom
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