diff --git a/src/pya/pya/pyaModule.cc b/src/pya/pya/pyaModule.cc
index 78cf493c9..1b1d7b6d4 100644
--- a/src/pya/pya/pyaModule.cc
+++ b/src/pya/pya/pyaModule.cc
@@ -2665,7 +2665,12 @@ PythonModule::make_classes (const char *mod_name)
 
             //  The str method is also routed via the tp_str implementation
             alt_names.push_back ("__str__");
-            if (! has_inspect) {
+#if GSI_ALIAS_INSPECT
+            bool alias_inspect = ! has_inspect;
+#else
+            bool alias_inspect = false;
+#endif
+            if (alias_inspect) {
               add_python_doc (**c, mt, int (mid), tl::to_string (tr ("This method is also available as 'str(object)' and 'repr(object)'")));
               alt_names.push_back ("__repr__");
             } else {
diff --git a/src/rba/rba/rba.cc b/src/rba/rba/rba.cc
index 94c2e6f48..acbb5e353 100644
--- a/src/rba/rba/rba.cc
+++ b/src/rba/rba/rba.cc
@@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@ rba_init (RubyInterpreterPrivateData *d)
       }
 
       if (mt->name (mid) == "to_s") {
-#if HAVE_RUBY_VERSION_CODE>=20000
+#if HAVE_RUBY_VERSION_CODE>=20000 && defined(GSI_ALIAS_INSPECT)
       //  Ruby 2.x does no longer alias "inspect" to "to_s" automatically, so we have to do this:
         rb_define_alias (klass, "inspect", "to_s");
 #endif
diff --git a/src/rba/rba/rbaInspector.cc b/src/rba/rba/rbaInspector.cc
index 7ec99d676..e534cf7cf 100644
--- a/src/rba/rba/rbaInspector.cc
+++ b/src/rba/rba/rbaInspector.cc
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ public:
 
   std::string description () const
   {
-    return ruby2c<std::string> (rba_safe_obj_as_string (m_obj));
+    return ruby2c<std::string> (rba_safe_inspect (m_obj));
   }
 
   VALUE rb_key (size_t index) const
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ public:
 
   std::string description () const
   {
-    return ruby2c<std::string> (rba_safe_obj_as_string (m_obj));
+    return ruby2c<std::string> (rba_safe_inspect (m_obj));
   }
 
   virtual std::string key (size_t index) const
diff --git a/src/rba/rba/rbaUtils.cc b/src/rba/rba/rbaUtils.cc
index 1df2b09fa..5bdc35432 100644
--- a/src/rba/rba/rbaUtils.cc
+++ b/src/rba/rba/rbaUtils.cc
@@ -212,6 +212,15 @@ rba_safe_obj_as_string (VALUE obj)
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ *  @brief object to string with check
+ */
+VALUE
+rba_safe_inspect (VALUE obj)
+{
+  return rba_safe_func (rb_inspect, obj);
+}
+
 /**
  *  @brief needed because NUM2INT may be a macro:
  */
diff --git a/src/rba/rba/rbaUtils.h b/src/rba/rba/rbaUtils.h
index ee394549e..b383fc1df 100644
--- a/src/rba/rba/rbaUtils.h
+++ b/src/rba/rba/rbaUtils.h
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ void rba_check_error ();
 VALUE rba_string_value_f (VALUE obj);
 VALUE rba_safe_string_value (VALUE obj);
 VALUE rba_safe_obj_as_string (VALUE obj);
+VALUE rba_safe_inspect (VALUE obj);
 int rba_num2int_f (VALUE obj);
 int rba_safe_num2int (VALUE obj);
 unsigned int rba_num2uint_f (VALUE obj);