Re: [Python-ideas] Dunder method to make object str-like

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016, at 10:10, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

I must be missing something... we already have a method for this: .__str__()

The point is to have a method that objects that "shouldn't" be used as strings in some contexts *won't* have, as floats (let alone strings) don't have __index__, even though they do have __int__.