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RE: Strong versus (weak|runtime) typing

• To: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Strong versus (weak|runtime) typing
• From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:32:50 +0000
• In-reply-to: <B885BEDCB3664E4AB1C72F1D85CB29F804B54CA2@R...>

At 13:07 12/02/2003 -0800, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>Static Typing - Type of variables must be declared at compile time (e.g.
>C++)
>Dynamic Typing - Type of variables determined from usage at runtime
>(e.g. JavaScript)
>Strong Typing - Variables cannot be coerced to unrelated types. (e.g.
>Java)
>Weak Typing -  Variables can be coerced to unrelated types. (e.g. C)

Python:

         x = 1
         y = "Hello"
         y = y + x

         TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects

So Python is dynamically typed. i.e. at runtime. Not weakly typed. Just as
Guido said and not what you said.

regards,

Sean

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