Python compared to other language

Neil Cerutti horpner at yahoo.com
Mon May 21 09:59:54 EDT 2007


On 2007-05-21, user2048 at yahoo.com <user2048 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Python is a strongly typed but dynamic language ...
>
> In the "A few questions" thread, John Nagle's summary of Python
> begins "Python is a byte-code interpreted untyped procedural
> dynamic language with implicit declaration. "
>
> Is Python strongly typed or untyped?

It's strongly typed (only a handful of type conversions are
automatic), and dynamically typed (no type declarations for
identifiers are needed, types are checked at run time, not
compile time).

-- 
Neil Cerutti
The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing. --Dizzy Dean



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