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by jstimpfle 638 days ago
In some significant ways, it's not strong at all. It's stronger than Javascript but it's difficult not to be. Python is a duck typing language for the most part.
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Duck typing is an aspect of it being dynamically typed, not whether it is strong/weak. But strong/weak is not formally defined, so if duck typing disqualifies it for you, so be it.

https://langdev.stackexchange.com/questions/3741/how-are-str...

I always think of Python as having "fairly strong" typing, because you can override the type of objects by just assigning to __class__.
Duck typing doesn't exist. What you refer to as duck typing is the inherit nature of dynamic typing.