As hwayne said, most of the time Python won't do implicit type coercion. What this means is, if you try to do something that doesn't make sense based on the types, it will throw an error rather than go on. For example:

    ~/$ python
    Python 3.7.4 (default, Oct 12 2019, 18:55:28) 
    [Clang 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.8)] on darwin
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> hello = 'Hello, world'
    >>> one = 1
    >>> hello + 1
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str

To put this in context, type systems can be roughly divided into 4 categories along the strong/weak and static/dynamic axes:

1. Strong static types (makes a lot of assertions about type, checks these assertions at compile time; Haskell, ML, OCaml, Rust, C# are reasonable examples--Haskell folks would probably laugh at me including C# here, but it's the only example in widespread non-academic use). Example (C#):

    var hello = "Hello, world";
    var one = 1;
    var result = hello + one // Doesn't compile

2. Strong dynamic types (makes a lot of assertions about type, checks these assertions at run time; Python is the best example I have, but to be honest, it's not a great example--I think the type system could be a lot stronger). See the Python code above for an example.

3. Weak static types (makes few assertions about type, checks these assertions at compile time; C, C++ are good examples, although it's arguable that C actually does more checking at run time than at compile time). Example (C):

    char* hello = "Hello, world";
    int one = 1;
    char* result = hello + one; // Happily compiles

4. Weak dynamic types (makes few assertions about type, checks these assertions at run time; JavaScript is a great example of this). Example (JavaScript):

    >>> var hello = "Hello, world"
    undefined
    >>> var one = 1
    undefined
    >>> hello + 1
    "Hello, world1"

In general, I have a slight preference for static types over dynamic types, but I think that difference is overrated. I care a lot more about my preference for strong types over weak types.