equivelant of Java's toString() method? (not repr)

[Roy Smith]

Alex Hunsley <lard at tardis.ed.ac.molar.uk> wrote:
> I suppose I'm looking for the equivelant of Java's toString() method...

That would be str(), which for the most part, just calls your object's 
__str__() method.  If your object doesn't have an __str__() method, there's 
nothing magic Python can do to invent one.

The difference between repr() and str() is that repr() is supposed to 
produce a parsable representation of the object; one which could be parsed 
by a Python interpreter to re-generate the original object.  On the other 
hand, str() is supposed to produce a human-readable string.