Static Typing in Python

[Premshree Pillai]

 --- Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch>
wrote: > Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch>
writes:
> 
> > Peter Maas <fpetermaas at netscape.net> writes:
> > 
> > > Premshree Pillai schrieb:
> > > > How do I force static typing in Python?
> > > 
> > > You have to enforce it by code instead of
> declaration, i.e. you
> > > have to do runtime type checking.
> > 
> > Just what do you understand "static typing" to
> mean ?
> 
> I ask because I am prepared to accept that you have
> a different
> working definition of "static typing" from mine, but
> people who
> actually want static typing typically want it
> because they think it
> gives them the following advantages:
> 
> a) type errors caught at compile time,
> 
> b) faster program exectution.
> 
> The code you showed:
> 
> > > class doesTypeChecking:
> > >      def __init__(self):
> > >          self.__dict__["aString"] = ""
> > >          self.__dict__["aFloat"] = 0.0
> > > 
> > >      def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
> > >          if type(self.__dict__[attr]) !=
> type(value):
> > >              raise ValueError, "Type mismatch
> for attribute %s\n" % attr
> 
> will catch no type errors at compile time, and will
> slow down
> execution, so I suspect that Premshree will be
> disapponinted with it.
> 
> 
> (BTW, my definition of "static typing" is "type
> checking is done at
> compile time" ... your example really looks like
> dynamic typing to
> me ... albeit with some restrictions on attribute
> types.)
> 
> 
> Premshree: Python is dynamically typed. There is no
> way to enforce
>            static typing. There is something called
> "pychecker" which
>            might be of some help to you. Why do you
> think that you
>            want static typing in Python ?
> -- 
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list 

Yes, I am aware that Python is dynamically typed, and
so is Perl, right? In Perl, we have the "use strict
vars" pragma to force variable declaration. Is there
something like it in Python?

Don't you think forced variable declaration is an
important requirement in a language?

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-Premshree
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