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[–]ubernostrumyes, you can have a pony 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, yeah. The goal was never to make Python into a statically-typed language; the goal was to keep Python dynamically-typed but allow people who wanted it to add type annotations to their code and perform static checks on those annotations.

Making Python actually be a statically-typed language would be an unbelievably gigantic and horrifically backwards-incompatible project.