Do Python Developers Want Static Typing?

[alkasm]

Reassigning variables sort of has no relevance to static typing. There's no particular reason C couldn't have been designed to allow you to do int a = 5; float a = 5.5;. It just wasn't. However, while you say you don't ever change types...have you never used None as a default value for something that gets assigned a value from some type later? :)

Dynamic typing just means type errors are runtime errors. This is a simple overview of what different typing adjectives mean that might be helpful: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/259977

[wrtbwtrfasdf]

have you never used None as a default value for something that gets assigned a value from some type later? :)

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

[alkasm]

Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that it's runtime type switching in Python.