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

[Antoon Pardon]

On 21-02-18 06:18, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 2/20/2018 8:38 AM, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>
>> People praise the dynamic nature of Python here on this list and then
>> often enough seem to recoil when they see a piece of code really using
>> that dynamism.
>
> ...
>
> When makes people recoil is abusing dynamism by needlessly rebinding a
> name to objects of different specific type within a single block of code.
>
But that was what Steven was complaining about. The fact that in a static language
He would need two names if he wanted a variable in a single block of code to be
first a number and then a string. At least that is how I understood him.

-- 
Antoon.