I started with Java originally, but the school where I learned has since switched to Python. For those who learned Python as a first language, how well did you

I started with Java originally, but the school where I learned has since switched to Python. For those who learned Python as a first language, how well did you do with typing? My guess is that learning Java for me enforced thinking about the types for everything, and the compiler gave me useful errors, rather than at runtime. I could see a student getting frustrated with runtime type errors, especially for things returned from their own functions, which can snowball easily into a mess.