Hello,

I just noticed that calling `str(x)` is actually doing (in CPython
`PyObject_Str`) `type(x).__str__(x)` rather than `x.__str__()`.

Context: I wanted to override __str__ for certain objects in order to
“see them better”.

I'm wondering why not do `x.__str__()`


Best regards,

-- 
Jérôme
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