How to Change any datatype to a String in Python

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to convert the object into a string (str) in Python with the help of examples.

Python is a object oriented programming language, so that everything is consider as an objects in Python.

Consider, that we have a following integer in our code:

price = 80

Now, we need to convert the above integer to a string.

Using the str() function

To convert the integer into a string, we can use the built-in str() function in Python.

The str() function takes the integer as an argument and converts it to a string.

Here is an example:

price = 80
result = str(price)

print(result)
print(type(result))

Output:

'80'
<class 'str'>

Other example:

floatInt = 12.5
result = str(my_obj)

print(result)
print(type(result))

Output:

'12.5'
<class 'str'>

Convert the class object to a string

To convert the class object to a string, we can use str() method in Python.

Here is an example:

class User():
    def __init__(self, id, name):
        self.id = id
        self.name = name

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name'

name = User(122, 'Gowtham')
print(name)

Output:

Gowtham

The str() method takes the class object as an argument and converts it to a string representation of it.

Similarly, we can also use the repr() method in python to the convert the class object to a string.

Here is an example:

class User():
    def __init__(self, id, name):
        self.id = id
        self.name = name

    def __repr__(self):
        return self.name

name = User(122, 'Alex')
print(name)