What does "dynamically-typed" mean?

Belonging to a type system that checks the variable types at runtime.

Dynamically-typed

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Belonging to a type system that checks the variable types at runtime. not-comparable
"A dynamically typed language does not require the programmer to declare the type of data a variable holds before using it. Python is a dynamically typed language."

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statically-typed

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