Python and generic programming

[Jeremy Bowers]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:56:09 +0000, Steven Bethard wrote:
> You probably meant "static typing" throughout this email when you said "strong 
> typing".  Python *is* strongly typed -- you can tell the type of any object at 
> runtime.  Python is not statically typed -- any name can be bound to any type 
> of object, so nothing is checked at "compile time".

That's why I said "the kind of type safety that you are referring to" in
my message. It was not worth bringing up, in this context.