Forcing type conversion

[Martijn Faassen]

Dale Strickland-Clark <dale at out-think.nospamco.uk> wrote:
> How do I get Python to force 'a' and 'b' into strings so that the following
> concatenates instead of trying to add.

> a = 1
> b = 2
> a + ":" + b

Use the builtin function str():

a = 1
b = 2
str(a) + ":" + str(b)

The library reference is your friend. :)

Regards,

Martijn
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