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singledispatch.singledispatch(func)

Single-dispatch generic function decorator.

Transforms a function into a generic function, which can have different behaviours depending upon the type of its first argument. The decorated function acts as the default implementation, and additional implementations can be registered using the register() attribute of the generic function.

class singledispatch.singledispatchmethod(func)

Bases: object

Single-dispatch generic method descriptor.

Supports wrapping existing descriptors and handles non-descriptor callables as instance methods.

register(cls, func) → func

Registers a new implementation for the given cls on a generic_method.

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