python does have pointers under the hood. objects are passed via pointers.

Of courses there’s pointers under the hood. It’s a runtime built in C++.

But that doesn’t mean that Python -the language not the runtime- has pointers itself.

the optional static type checking in python gives you a stronger typing than what golang does

“Stronger” isn’t the term you’d want to use there. Python is not more strongly typed than Go just by virtue of it being more a dynamic language.

I do agree that the Go type system is pretty inflexible though.