[cryptos]

`var` has nothing to do with dynamic typing. It is still statically (compile time) typed, so the type can not change at runtime. Compare that to JavaScript where you could easily switch the type of a variable from Number to String.

[computerdork]

agreed, it's not (as mentioned, it's just syntactic sugar). Still, how often is changing the type of a var needed? (besides minor casting issues)

And not saying that dynamic typing doesn't have a place, I really like working in Python, it's just that for more complicated code, prefer statically typed as it leads to less problems with your expressions. To each their own.