Code/test ratio wrt static vs dynamic typing [was: Re: Python Success stories]

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>
> A rather off-topic and perhaps naive question, but isn't a 1:4
> production/test ratio a bit too much ? Is there a guesstimate of what
> percentage of this test code tests for things that you would get for
> free in a statically typed language ? I'm just curious whether this
> argument against dynamic typing - that you end up doing the job of a
> static compiler in test code - holds in practice.
>
> George

To me it seems like more of an argument for a (more) concise Test
Framework for Python, or at least a fully fledge IDE beyond pyDev.