How is this a valid answer when converting boolean value to a string

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we have a function bool_to_string(flag) and you're supposed to define it so that the bool value passed to the function i.e flag is always returned as a string.

bool_to_string = str

This was a valid answer but I don't understand how it works. I know about lambda but this doesn't appear to be that. Can someone explain to me how it is so short?

edit: like the person below highlighted, our original function was just converting a value to string. That is the same the built-in function str() does so we have just swapped out our original function with str. Simple and clean solution.

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The expression creates a new function bool_to_string and assigns it the value of function str. In essence, bool_to_string is an alias for the str function.

In Python, everything is an object you can work with functions in the same way as with any other data type.

Eriks Klotins0
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