Track 11 · Lesson 4 of 12

String representations

Control how objects look when printed, inspected and put in f-strings with __str__ and __repr__.

You will be able to

• Explain why a plain object prints as <__main__.Parcel object at 0x…>
• Write __str__ to give an object a readable, user-facing text form
• Write __repr__ to give an unambiguous developer-facing form, following the ClassName(...) convention
• Predict which representation print(), f-strings, the REPL and containers use