Yes, but that's mostly an exception compared to the rest of Python's type system. Python doesn't care a lot about types in general. Sure, it's not quite as leni

Yes, but that's mostly an exception compared to the rest of Python's type system. Python doesn't care a lot about types in general. Sure, it's not quite as lenient as JS, but JS is a pretty extreme case - you won't find many other languages that'll happily do an addition of an object and an array.