[Python-checkins] bpo-47007: [doc] `str` special method lookup (GH-31863)

[miss-islington]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c0063bdc7b5fed98c6799f3da0a954a775e3d89e
commit: c0063bdc7b5fed98c6799f3da0a954a775e3d89e
branch: 3.9
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-04-04T19:59:04-07:00
summary:

bpo-47007: [doc] `str` special method lookup (GH-31863)


Clarify the `str()` docs to point out that `object.__str__()`
follows special method lookup.

Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra at gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit bb86d1d9fbd1888524e04475383f4ea764277f67)

Co-authored-by: Vanshaj Singhania <8797467+itsvs at users.noreply.github.com>

files:
M Doc/library/stdtypes.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index b10909d81af0a..4be4d1daa831d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1448,7 +1448,8 @@ multiple fragments.
    depends on whether *encoding* or *errors* is given, as follows.
 
    If neither *encoding* nor *errors* is given, ``str(object)`` returns
-   :meth:`object.__str__() <object.__str__>`, which is the "informal" or nicely
+   :meth:`type(object).__str__(object) <object.__str__>`,
+   which is the "informal" or nicely
    printable string representation of *object*.  For string objects, this is
    the string itself.  If *object* does not have a :meth:`~object.__str__`
    method, then :func:`str` falls back to returning