Checking function calls

[James Stroud]

Jay Parlar wrote:
> 
> On Mar 6, 2006, at 8:44 PM, James Stroud wrote:
> 
>> Since python is "weakly typed", you will not be able to check what 
>> "type" of arguments a function expects. TypeErrors relating to the 
>> type of argemtns you pass will be raised inside the function only and 
>> not when it is called. I.e. there is no type checking when a function 
>> is called, only in its body.
>>
> 
> I don't mean to take a tangent from the original purpose of the thread, 
> but it is generally accepted that Python is STRONGLY, dynamically typed. 
> An example of weak dynamic typing would be Perl.

I think I meant "STRONGLY, dynamically typed". I've always been a little 
CS lingo challenged.



> A lot of it of course comes down to one's definitions of strong/weak, 
> but general consensus (at least around c.l.p.) is that Python is a 
> strongly typed language.
> 
> Jay P.
> 


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