does lack of type declarations make Python unsafe?

Moshe Zadka m at moshez.org
Mon Jun 16 10:55:11 EDT 2003


On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:

> To take up Alex' point: passing in the wrong type is probably much
> less common than, say, using the wrong value, or mixing up the order
> of arguments (and many functions take a bunch of arguments of the
> same type, so type-checking doesn't help there!).

And of course, every bug can be said to come from passing the wrong program
to the Python interpreter :)
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