Larry Bates wrote: >I may be reading this question different than Fredrik.
it looks like you're using a non-standard definition of the word "overloading". here are the usual definitions (quoting from a random google page): "Overloading a method refers to having two methods which share the same name but have different signatures." "Overriding a method refers to having a new implementation of a method with the same signature in a subclass." </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list