# 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)