Yeah, I'm not saying static typing would make the decision for you but it would let you know every line in your code where the decision had to be made instead o

Yeah, I'm not saying static typing would make the decision for you but it would let you know every line in your code where the decision had to be made instead of having to rely on runtime crashes or debugging weird behaviour. The latter is really horrible as well as it's hard to pinpoint where the problem originates from and you sometimes have to delve into the innards of libraries you're using to understand what's going on. I just think it's a good example of how strong static typing makes refactoring large projects significantly easier compared to strong dynamic typing. Getting everyone to move from Python 2 to 3 is basically a massive refactoring task.