How to do constructor overloading in python?

Question

how to achieve constructor overloading in python? i tried making two __init__ function but did not worj

Answer 1

If you define several __init__ methods, each new method will just override the preceding definition(s), so there'll always be only one __init__ method.

There's no need for constructor overloading since you can just use variable arguments and make your __init__ method flexible enough to react to all kinds of object initializations:

def __init__(self, *args):
print(len(args), 'were passed')
if args:
print('first argument is of type', type(args[0]))
etc.

Answer 2

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
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