Difference between wkt and str

Question

I have a shapely Polygon. What is the difference between converting it to wkt and converting it to string:

import shapely.wkt

P = shapely.wkt.loads('POLYGON ((8.0 3.0, 8.3 3.3, 8.3 3.0, 8.0
3.0))')

print(P.wkt)

print(str(P))

Is the result always the same? And can these two be used interchangeably?

Answer

They are the same. Looking at the source code BaseGeometry.__str__() method returns self.wkt.

So with P.wkt or str(P) you get the same Well Known Text (WKT) representation.

Accepted Answer

They are the same. Looking at the source code BaseGeometry.__str__() method returns self.wkt.So with P.wkt or str(P) you get the same Well Known Text (WKT) representation.

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