Is Python strongly typed?

Question

I\'ve come across links that say Python is a strongly typed language.

However, I thought in strongly typed languages you couldn\'t do this:

bob = 1
b         


        

Answer 1

The term "strong typing" does not have a definite definition.

Therefore, the use of the term depends on with whom you're speaking.

I do not consider any language, in which the type of a variable is not either explicitly declared, or statically typed to be strongly typed.

Strong typing doesn't just preclude conversion (for example, "automatically" converting from an integer to a string). It precludes assignment (i.e., changing the type of a variable).

If the following code compiles (interprets), the language is not strong-typed:

Foo = 1 Foo = "1"

In a strongly typed language, a programmer can "count on" a type.

For example, if a programmer sees the declaration,

UINT64 kZarkCount;

and he or she knows that 20 lines later, kZarkCount is still a UINT64 (as long as it occurs in the same block) - without having to examine intervening code.