title: Can Python be made statically typed?
body: <p>I know that Python is mainly slower than languages like fortran and c/c++ because it is interpreted rather than compiled.</p>
  
  <p>Another reason I have also read about is that it is quite slow because it is dynamically typed, i.e. you don't have to declare variable types and it does that automatically. This is very nice because it makes the code look much cleaner and you basically don't have to worry too much about variable types.</p>
  
  <p>I know that there won't be a very good reason to do this as you can just wrap eg. fortran code with Python, but is it possible to manually override this dynamicly typed nature of Python and declare all variable types manually, and thus increasing Python's speed?</p>