Strong/weak typing

[Mel]

MartinRinehart at gmail.com wrote:

> I'm writing Python as if it were strongly typed, never recycling a
> name to hold a type other than the original type.
> 
> Is this good software engineering practice, or am I missing something
> Pythonic?

Nothing wrong with what you're doing.  I've never come up with a really
convincing reason to recycle names.  Possibly something that follows the
evolution of the data:

middle_name = raw_input ('Name?')
middle_name = middle_name.split()
middle_name = middle_name[1]

It works, but I don't like it enough to actually use it.

        Mel.