Question

I’m trying to make a function that does different things when called on different argument types. Specifically, one of the functions should have the signature

def myFunc(string, string):

and the other should have the signature

def myFunc(list):

How can I do this, given that I’m not allowed to specify whether the arguments are strings or lists?

Answer 1

*args is probably the better way, but you could do something like:

def myFunc(arg1, arg2=None):
  if arg2 is not None: 
     #do this
  else:
     #do that

But that’s probably a terrible way of doing it.