#---------- Naive overloading of argument----------#
import types, exceptions
def overloaded_get_text(o):
    if type(o) is types.FileType:
        text = o.read()
    elif type(o) is types.StringType:
        text = o
    elif type(o) in (types.IntType, types.FloatType,
                     types.LongType, types.ComplexType):
        text = repr(o)
    else:
        raise exceptions.TypeError
    return text