Difference between variable and print variable

Question

I have the following code (Assuming I am typing in IDLE line by line)

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
s = u"My Currency is - £"
s
print s

for - s - I'm getting an output - u'My Currency is - \xa3'

for - print s - I'm getting an output - u'My Currency is - £'

What is the difference ? Why I am getting different outputs ?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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In Python, print shows the result of __str__ on its arguments, which may be different from __repr__. For more, see here: Difference between __str__ and __repr__ in Python

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answered Dec 16 '15 at 10:29

John Zwinck

Not exactly, try calling explicit `str(s)` or `s.__str__()` and You'll get `UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters...`, but `print` works fine, so `print` makes something more. – user2622016 Dec 16 '15 at 10:38

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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it is beacause of differences between

__str__

and

__repr__.

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answered Dec 16 '15 at 10:30

arash javanmard

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