Are the critiques in "All the things I hate about Python" valid?

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On Monday, February 19, 2018 at 1:07:02 PM UTC, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
> På Mon, 19 Feb 2018 04:39:31 +0000 (UTC)
> Steven D'Aprano skrev:
> > On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 04:26:32 +0100, Anders Wegge Keller wrote:
> > 
> > > På Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:47:14 +1100
> > > Tim Delaney skrev:  
> > >> On 18 February 2018 at 22:55, Anders Wegge Keller <wegge at wegge.dk>
> > >> wrote:  
> > > 
> > >   
> >  [...]  
> > >   
> > >> You couldn't have got the above much more wrong.  
> > >    
> > >> As others have said, typing is about how the underlying memory is
> > >> treated.  
> > > 
> > >  And that is exactly my point. Python does not have a typed list. It
> > >  have a list that takes whatever is thrown into it.
> > > 
> > >  I'll skip the rest, as you totally missed the point.  
> > 
> > I think its actually you have totally missed the point. What you want is 
> > a homogeneous list, a list which only accepts items of the same type. The 
> > built-in list is not that data structure, but Python already has 
> > something similar: see the array module.
> 
>  Given that I'm the one making a point about the unwarranted smugness, I
> know that I'm not missing anything. Array is not even close to providing a
> strongly typed container. For all of the yakking about other languages
> weak, blah, BCPL, blah, I still wonder where that need to feel superior to
> anything else comes from.  
> 
>  Python isn't particular strong typed. In fact, apart from asking an object
> what type it is, types are not that important. It's the interface that
> matters. I wonder why this is a sore point for Python developers?
> 
> 
> -- 
> //Wegge

Congratulations, you're the first new person I've had on my Dream Team for some months, fresh blood is always so welcome.

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Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.