Fully agree. After spending quite some time working on a medium-sized Python codebase I went from being agnostic about static vs. dynamic typing to favor static typing. In a small side project I've used Python 3.5 with type annotations and it's an improvement, IMHO.
I've been a Python developer for years and I also agree that static typing is fantastic. I'm very much looking forward to the recent optional typing in 3.5 improving.
