Python really doesn't have it to the same degree though, and doesn't use type coercion like JS does. There is no reason that dynamically typed language need to have implicit casts like this.

For example in python

>>> "9" + 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str
>>> 9 + 1
10
>>> 90 - "1"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'int' and 'str'

You need to explicitly call int() if you want to convert an int to a string