Most commonly used str() function from Python library returns a string representation of object.
>>> no=100 >>> str(no) '100' >>> L1=[1,2,3,4] >>> str(L1) '[1, 2, 3, 4]' >>> d={'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3, 'd': 4} >>> str(d) "{'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3, 'd': 4}"
However, repr() returns a default and unambiguous representation of the object, where as str() gives an informal representation that may be readable but may not be always unambiguous.
>>> str(d) "{'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3, 'd': 4}" >>> repr(d) "{'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3, 'd': 4}" >>> repr(L1) '[1, 2, 3, 4]' >>> repr(no) '100'