the printlist (function accepts dictionary input just as with printlist ()this list can be any length howeveryou must process the items(found in the dictionary to obtain the individual values choose runrun module you see the output shown in figure - the individual lists can be of any length in factin this situationplaying with the code to see what you can do with it is good idea for exampletry mixing numbers and strings with the first list to see what happens try adding boolean values as well the point is that using this technique makes your methods incredibly flexible if all you want is list of values as input figure - the code can process any number of entries in the list overloading operators in some situationsyou want to be able to do something special as the result of using standard operator such as add (+in factsometimes python doesn' provide default behavior for operators because it has no default to implement no matter what the reason might beoverloading operators makes it possible to assign new functionality to existing operators so that they do what you wantrather than what python intended the following steps demonstrate how to overload an operator and use it as part of an application this example also appears with the downloadable source code as overloadoperator py open python file window you see an editor in which you can type the example code