Good replies. I'm in the process of learning Python. I'm a native C++ programmer, so you can see how the question relates. There's a lot of cool things C++ allowed you to do with type-checking, such as function overloading. With templates + type checking, I can create a STD version of ifstream/ ofstream in Python. However, I found it isn't possible since Python mainly works with strings in file data instead of bytes. To write a number 400000 to a file in python would take 6 bytes instead of 4, for example. Anyway, I just wanted to explain why I was asking about type checking. There's other measures I'm willing to take to get my job done. Thanks guys.
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