"casting" Python objects

[Brian Quinlan]

David LeBlanc wrote:
> Unlike a typed language like C++, containers like arry or dictionary
are
> containers of any object, not just some particular type.

Python is a typed language. In fact, it is strongly typed. However, type
checking is done at runtime, unlike languages like Java and C++, where
it is done at compile time. 

So Python is strongly dynamically typed, Java is strongly statically
typed and Perl is weakly (dynamically) typed.

Cheers,
Brian