`functools.singledispatchmethod` for use before 3.8

singledispatchmethod.py

from functools import singledispatch, update_wrapper

class singledispatchmethod:
    """Single-dispatch generic method descriptor.
    Supports wrapping existing descriptors and handles non-descriptor
    callables as instance methods.
    """

    def __init__(self, func):
        if not callable(func) and not hasattr(func, "__get__"):
            raise TypeError(f"{func!r} is not callable or a descriptor")

        self.dispatcher = singledispatch(func)
        self.func = func

    def register(self, cls, method=None):
        """generic_method.register(cls, func) -> func
        Registers a new implementation for the given *cls* on a *generic_method*.
        """
        return self.dispatcher.register(cls, func=method)

    def __get__(self, obj, cls):
        def _method(*args, **kwargs):
            method = self.dispatcher.dispatch(args[0].__class__)
            return method.__get__(obj, cls)(*args, **kwargs)

        _method.__isabstractmethod__ = self.__isabstractmethod__
        _method.register = self.register
        update_wrapper(_method, self.func)
        return _method

    @property
    def __isabstractmethod__(self):
        return getattr(self.func, '__isabstractmethod__', False)