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Jason Tran
7,393 PointsI'm not sure what's the point of the magic methods string conversion example
I don't understand what is the advantage of using the dunder string conversion (str) method as oppose to just writing a normal method that converts an instance into a string.
For example:
def __str__(self):
return "{}: {}".format(self.__class__.__name__, self.name)
does the exact same thing as the following:
def strconv(self):
return "{}: {}".format(self.__class__.__name__, self.name)
the difference is that I didn't use the dunder magic method for the method name.
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Daniel Turato
Java Web Development Techdegree Graduate 30,124 PointsYou're right, there is no real difference in the output from both methods. However, magic methods are already built with python already so it's a standard to use these when you need them.