Python for large projects

[Matthias]

Ville Vainio <ville at spammers.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Jacek" == Jacek Trzmiel <sc0rp at hot.pl> writes:
> 
>     Jacek> Jacek Generowicz wrote:
>     >> ... and one thing that makes unit testing very difficult, is
>     >> static typing ...
> 
>     Jacek> Care to provide some examples to back this opinion up?
> 
> Programming is just a lot of work in statically typed languages, so
> you need to work very hard to get even the basic functionality
> working. You might not have energy/time/money to make proper unit
> tests after/during the development.

Aren't unit tests used to _save_ energy/time/money?
If so, why should this be different w.r.t. typing?