type checking

[sashan]

I'm a Python newbie. I have been using c++ for 5 years and before that I 
  was programming in Pascal. The one thing that annoys me about python 
is dynamic typing because I find myself making typographical errors of 
the sort that would under C++ be picked up by the compiler at compiler 
time.  With Python I have to wait for the error to appear at runtime in 
order for me to correct it. I find this inefficient. Any advice about 
how to get around this would be appreciated.