Should I force Python type checking?

Question

Perhaps as a remnant of my days with a strongly-typed language (Java), I often find myself writing functions and then forcing type checks. For example:

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Answer 1

This is a non-idiomatic way of doing things. Typically in Python you would use try/except tests.

def orSearch(d, query):
    try:
        d.get(something)
    except TypeError:
        print("oops")
    try:
        foo = query[:2]
    except TypeError:
        print("durn")