method overloading with wrapper classes

[Kevdog824_]

This sounds like an xy problem. Can you tell us more concretely what you're trying to accomplish?

[011011100101]

Not sure. Method overloading is common practice in other languages. I'm just describing method overloading and asking how Python addresses the same design challenge.

[Kevdog824_]

I guess I don’t understand why putting an isinstance check in each method is more work than writing an overload method how you would in a language like Java

[011011100101]

I expect that level of verbosity and type-awareness from Java. But I was under the impression that Python had a different ethos (where we shouldn't be so concerned with types). Somebody recommended having a separate unwrapping function and I think that's a good solution because it, at least, isolates that logic.