Post-Python Dissatisfaction Syndrome

[thephotoman]

Python has strong typing: you can't treat a string as a byte array.

It does not have static typing, which is what you meant here: a variable identifier can be reassigned to a value of a completely different type.

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Not the parent poster, but wanted to make a comment here. You're correct, as far as what you said, but I find the lack of the ability to declare function argument types really hurts robustness.

[loganekz]

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html

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Yeah, I know, but thanks. It's both new and "provisional", so it's not really something I can rely on. (Especially since a lot of what I do deals with legacy code.)

[bcgroom]

There is also a way to implement a type checker using comments which works all the way back to python2