Can the __str__() method be implemented for the LinkedList class?

Question

In the context of this exercise, can the LinkedList class impelement the __str__() method to make it possible to print a list object?

Answer

Yes, any class may implement __str__() or __repr__() to directly print a representation of the object. Since the LinkedList class already has a method stringify_list() to convert the list contents to a string, an implementation of __str__() could easily call this method as shown in the code snippet below.

class LinkedList:

    def __str__(self):
        return self.stringify_list()

This would allow for the list object to be printed as shown in this example.

mylist = LinkedList()
mylist.insert_beginning(1)
mylist.insert_beginning(2)
mylist.insert_beginning(3)

print(mylist)
#OUTPUTS:
#3
#2
#1