Python: A Dynamically Typed Language? | Learn Python | Python Tutorials

Know what makes a programming language dynamically typed and why Python is a dynamically typed language.

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What is a dynamically-typed programming language? Is Python dynamically-typed or statically typed?
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In few programming languages, the syntax for declaring a variable goes like:

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int x = 50;
char test = "hello"
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Whenever there is a mention of the data-type while declaring a variable, it means that the compiler requires to be informed about the data-type of the corresponding variable (before compilation) to initialize it.
This is the way statically-typed programming languages work.
Examples: C, C++, Java

But when the variable declarations look like these:
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x = 50;
test = "hello"
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They indicate nothing but the underlying dynamically-typed language.
The compiler is not required to be intimated about the data type of the variable because it looks into this aspect at run-time.
Examples: Python, JavaScript, PHP, RUBY