What does str(...) do?

[Peter Bittner]

Hi there!

I've seen

    print '....' + str(text) + '...'

in some code (in a function definition).
What does this 'str(...)' really do? - Is it absolutely necessary??

Peter

| Peter H. Bittner
| International Student at Aston University
| e-mail: bittneph at aston.ac.uk
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