Python Decimal to String

Question

There are tons of topics on here that explain how to convert a string to a decimal, but how do I convert a decimal back to a string?

Like if I did this:

Answer 1

Almost all the built-ins work on the Decimal class as you would expect:

>>> import decimal
>>> dec=decimal.Decimal('10.0')

A string:

>>> str(dec)
'10.0'

A float:

>>> float(dec)
10.0

An int:

>>> int(dec)
10

Object representation (as it would be in the interactive interpreter):

>>> repr(dec)
"Decimal('10.0')"

Rational number:

>>> import fractions
>>> fractions.Fraction(decimal.Decimal('0.50'))
Fraction(1, 2)