Jay Parlar wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2006, at 8:44 PM, James Stroud wrote: > >> Since python is "weakly typed", you will not be able to check what >> "type" of arguments a function expects. TypeErrors relating to the >> type of argemtns you pass will be raised inside the function only and >> not when it is called. I.e. there is no type checking when a function >> is called, only in its body. >> > > I don't mean to take a tangent from the original purpose of the thread, > but it is generally accepted that Python is STRONGLY, dynamically typed. > An example of weak dynamic typing would be Perl.
I think I meant "STRONGLY, dynamically typed". I've always been a little CS lingo challenged. > A lot of it of course comes down to one's definitions of strong/weak, > but general consensus (at least around c.l.p.) is that Python is a > strongly typed language. > > Jay P. > -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
