'Converts the given item to a Unicode string.
Uses ``__unicode__`` or ``__str__`` method with Python objects and
``toString`` with Java objects.
Use `Encode String To Bytes` and `Decode Bytes To String` keywords
in ``String`` library if you need to convert between Unicode and byte
strings using different encodings. Use `Convert To Bytes` if you just
want to create byte strings.'

def convert_to_string(self, item):

    self._log_types(item)
    return self._convert_to_string(item)
