Methods with the same name in one class in python?

Question

How to declare few methods with the same name ,but with different numbers of parameters or different types in one class?

What I must to change in this class:

class MyClass:
    """"""

    #----------------------------------------------------------------------
    def __init__(self):
        """Constructor"""
    def my_method(self,parameter_A_that_Must_Be_String):
        print parameter_A_that_Must_Be_String

    def my_method(self,parameter_A_that_Must_Be_String,parameter_B_that_Must_Be_String):
        print parameter_A_that_Must_Be_String
        print parameter_B_that_Must_Be_String

    def my_method(self,parameter_A_that_Must_Be_String,parameter_A_that_Must_Be_Int):
        print parameter_A_that_Must_Be_String * parameter_A_that_Must_Be_Int

Answer 1

You can have a function that takes in variable number of arguments.

def my_method(*args, **kwds):
    # do something

# when you call the method
my_method(a1, a2, k1=a3, k2=a4)

# you get: 
args = (a1, a2)
kwds = {'k1':a3, 'k2':a4}

So you can modify your function as follows:

def my_method(*args):
    if len(args) == 1 and isinstance(args[0], str):
        # case 1
    elif len(args) == 2 and isinstance(args[1], int):
        # case 2 
    elif len(args) == 2 and isinstance(args[1], str):
        # case 3