This. Let me add a radical point: static typing is often thrown out anyway, when you encode your data as strings, serialize/marshal it, create polymorphic list

This. Let me add a radical point: static typing is often thrown out anyway, when you encode your data as strings, serialize/marshal it, create polymorphic lists and hierarchical data structures, etc etc Meanwhile, disciplined use of python is perfectly easy to get right: - use pylint - be ruthlessly consistent in naming classes, methods and variables (which pylint helps btw,) - for large projects, consider mypy etc