myfunction.py

def myfunction(arg):
    if isinstance(arg, str):
        print(‘Do something stringy: {}’.format(arg))
    elif isinstance(arg, int):
        print(‘Do something octal: {0:o}’.format(arg))
    elif isinstance(arg, float):
        print(‘Do something floaty: {0:.2f}’.format(arg))
    else:
        print(‘Do something generic: {}’.format(arg))