Python str() function is used to convert the specified value into a string. This method returns the string representation of a given object.
str(object, encoding=encoding, errors=errors) - object – whose string representation is to be returned
- encoding – that the given byte object needs to be decoded to (can be UTF-8, ASCII, etc)
- errors – a response when decoding fails (can be strict, ignore, replace, etc)
Python str() function
Simple example code.
# string
name = str('John')
print(type(name), name)
# integer
age = str(100)
print(type(age), age)
# numeric string
height = str('100ft')
print(type(height), height)Output:
There are six types of error taken by this function.
- strict (default): it raises a UnicodeDecodeError.
- ignore: It ignores the unencodable Unicode
- replace: It replaces the unencodable Unicode with a question mark
- xmlcharrefreplace: It inserts XML character reference instead of the unencodable Unicode
- backslashreplace: inserts a \uNNNN Espace sequence instead of unencodable Unicode
- namereplace: inserts a \N{…} escape sequence instead of an unencodable Unicode
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Note: IDE: PyCharm 2021.3.3 (Community Edition)
Windows 10
Python 3.10.1
All Python Examples are in Python 3, so Maybe its different from python 2 or upgraded versions.