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1. You might need to re-read the site guidelines about assuming good faith.

2. Your last two sentences were, I think, not needed for the point you were making. They were also somewhere between gross generalizations and flat-out wrong, and felt like a gratuitous slam on a language that wasn't even the topic. I thought that deserved a response, even if it wasn't your main point.

3. I may assume that you know C. I don't assume that everyone reading this exchange knows C.



> "They were also somewhere between gross generalizations"

Pointless correction. Gross generalizations are not wrong in this particular situation, which is not meant to teach anyone C.

Let me try again.

Do you think that your correction was more important than helping the poster of this comment correct their conceptual mistake?

> "In what reasonable sense can Python be said to "enforce types at runtime" here?"




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