docs: def to_text(data):
      """
      Serializes a python object as plain text
  
      If the data can be serialized as JSON, this method will use the to_json
      method to format the data, otherwise the data is returned as is.
      """
      try:
          serialized_content = to_json(data, indent=4)
      except Exception, e:
          serialized_content = data
      return serialized_content