It depends on what you mean by statically typed language. If you mean other stuff like SML/Ocaml, I agree. If you include C/C++/Java/C# in your definition "statically typed", then I beg to differ. I have considerable experience in C, Java and, to a lesser extent, C++. And all in all I consider their type systems worthless for error prevention, the flexibility of python gains you more than their type systems do.

In this sense I suspect the OP would say the same about any ML-like static type system, but not many other static type systems.