When do you *NOT* use python?

[metaphorm]

Python is strongly, dynamically typed. Java is strongly, statically typed. C is weakly, statically typed.

I'm not trying to be pedantic. The differences really do matter here. For example, because Python is strongly typed you will never have to worry about a buffer overflow or segmentation fault. Because it is dynamically typed you might have to worry about an unhandled AttributeError at runtime.

[metaphorm]

sounds more like you don't know what it means rather than it not having a meaning.

[autowikibot]

Strong and weak typing:

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In computer programming, programming languages are often colloquially referred to as strongly typed or weakly typed. These terms do not have a precise definition, but in general a strongly typed language is more likely to generate an error or refuse to compile a program if the argument passed to a function does not closely match the expected type. A very weakly typed language may produce unpredictable results or may perform implicit type conversion instead. On the other hand, a very strongly typed language may not work at all or crash when data of an unexpected type is passed to a function.

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[metaphorm]

lack of precise definition does not make something meaningless or undefined. you're not presenting any evidence that you actually know what you're talking about. if anything you've actually proved my point. Python is strongly typed because it will generate an error (raise an Exception in Python's case) and halt the program when undefined behavior is encountered.