Are there objects that cannot be coerced into a string in python?

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In Python, can any object be coerced into a string unless its __str__ method is overloaded to raise an exception?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 13 '19 at 02:36

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Yes, any Python object can be converted to a str.

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gmds

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 13 '19 at 02:46

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Everything in Python is an object.

The type object has a method for string coercion as you’ve noted. If some object did not have this method defined, it would not be an object. This contradicts the first statement. QED.

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 13 '19 at 02:50

Yes:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html

Some operations are supported by several object types; in particular, practically all objects can be compared, tested for truth value, and converted to a string (with the repr() function or the slightly different str() function). The latter function is implicitly used when an object is written by the print() function.

Are there objects that cannot be coerced into a string in python?

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