diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c1a0f074c7..0b2d1ca233 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
   responses from an LLM server.
 - Fix: Make sure `at_server_reload` is called also on non-repeating Scripts.
 - Fix: Webclient was not giving a proper error when sending an unknown outputfunc to it.
+- Fix: Make `py` command always send strings unless `client_raw` flag is set.
 - Documentation fixes.
 
 ## Evennia 2.1.0
diff --git a/evennia/commands/default/system.py b/evennia/commands/default/system.py
index 92e3ea3085..e4c22664e2 100644
--- a/evennia/commands/default/system.py
+++ b/evennia/commands/default/system.py
@@ -239,7 +239,11 @@ def _run_code_snippet(
 
     if ret is None:
         return
-    elif isinstance(ret, tuple):
+
+    if not client_raw:
+        ret = str(ret)
+
+    if isinstance(ret, tuple):
         # we must convert here to allow msg to pass it (a tuple is confused
         # with a outputfunc structure)
         ret = str(ret)