This has nothing to do with either dynamic or weak typing in Python. It's just Python not disambiguating between shadowing and reassignment. Here's a comment o

This has nothing to do with either dynamic or weak typing in Python. It's just Python not disambiguating between shadowing and reassignment. Here's a comment of mine that explains why Python is weakly typed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26354039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26354039.