Static Typing in Python

[Joe Mason]

In article <mailman.11.1079347355.12241.python-list at python.org>, Premshree Pillai wrote:
> Err...you probably have the wrong idea of static
> typing, I think. Static typing has to do with explicit
> declaration (initialization) of variables (and not of
> variable types). Like in C, C++, etc, Python too is

Is that an official definition from somewhere?  Cause I always thought
static typing was about variable types.

Joe