Ah, I think I see what you mean. I still think it's more accurate to say that names are just pointers that don't have any typing info themselves (or if they do, it's an implementation detail that doesn't actually get surfaced and isn't a part of the language definition). In Python it doesn't quite make sense to talk about the type of a "name" or "variable" or "pointer" because, because it points to an object, and that's where the canonical type info actually lives.