I don't think python has any sort of overloading (based on signature that is). You can use def f(°args, °°kwargs) though. What you'll get is a tuple containing

I don't think python has any sort of overloading (based on signature that is). You can use def f(°args, °°kwargs) though. What you'll get is a tuple containing positional arguments and dictionary with keywords arguments. You can even specify some explicitly and then consume all others with this. edit: ° should've been * but I couldn't escape it without using spaces.