Skip the __str__()

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The JSONSerializable class implements a default __str__ method if a sub-class doesn’t already define this method. This method will format the dataclass instance as a prettified JSON string, for example whenever str(obj) or print(obj) is called.

If you want to opt out of this default __str__ method, you can pass str=False as shown below:

from dataclasses import dataclass

from dataclass_wizard import JSONSerializable


@dataclass
class MyClass(JSONSerializable, str=False):
    my_str: str = 'hello world'
    my_int: int = 2


c = MyClass()
print(c)
# prints the same as `repr(c)`:
#   MyClass(my_str='hello world', my_int=2)