In this post I’d like to cover a cool python decorator that’s part of the built-in functools library called @singledispatch. It’s a favorite of mine and something I’ve been using quite a bit over the past year. I’m surprised how little I see it in projects I come across so hopefully this post will help it find its way into a repo or two. ;)

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