Inconsistency in Python programming language?

[newbieAuggie2019]

Use one week JavaScript and you'll love the type safety in Python.

In other languages casting may be an assertion where conversion takes action. In those cases casting an object to a more specific object gives you the ability to act on it differently, but does not necessarily result in a conversion of that object to the more specific object.

Sorry, I'm a newbie at Python. I'm afraid I have no further knowledge about other programming languages than when I look for some doubts in Python, and I find that in some cases, they explain how the same is done in Java or in C. While at times I can guess the similarities and differences, in a similar way as I can somewhat manage to change a program written in Python 2 into Python 3, without having studied Python 2, I couldn't do much more than that.

The following approach could cover all cases (e.g where we might not be sure whether the input string has decimal):

int(float("4.5"))

Output:
4

I like that, although of course it is just a way to bypass the problem, and not a direct approach to handle what it seems a contradiction and an inconsistency. I guess it is something that only people belonging to the Python Software Foundation could address in the case they were inclined to ...

Thank you everyone for your insights!!!

All the best,