Is it Pythonic to mimic method overloading?
<p>Is it pythonic to mimic method overloading as found in statically typed languages? By that I mean writing a function that checks the types of its arguments and behaves differently based on those types.</p>

<p>Here is an example:</p>

<pre><code>class EmployeeCollection(object):
    @staticmethod
    def find(value):
        if isinstance(value, str):
            #find employee by name and return
        elif isinstance(value, int):
            #find employee by employee number and return
        else:
            raise TypeError()
</code></pre>
