Java overloading vs overriding

You are basically correct. Overloading is having multiple methods in a single class where the method has the same name. However, the return value is not seen as part of the signature of the method. Thus, you cannot overload a method by changing only the return value. You cannot have the following code, from your … Read more

Read and overwrite a file in Python

If you don’t want to close and reopen the file, to avoid race conditions, you could truncate it: f = open(filename, ‘r+’) text = f.read() text = re.sub(‘foobar’, ‘bar’, text) f.seek(0) f.write(text) f.truncate() f.close() The functionality will likely also be cleaner and safer using open as a context manager, which will close the file handler, … Read more