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[mmccreesh1]

Hi, I am learning Python as my first programming language and built a "VERY" simple program.

age = input("What age are you: ")

agestring = str(age)

print "You are " + agestring

Although, I saw that their is an easier way to convert a numerical value to a string without having to use the str() function.
I though all you had to do is this

age = input("What age are you: ")

print "You are " + 'age'

But this just recongnises the word age as a string, anyone know how you do this?

Thanks.

[Sysop_fb]

Two ways off the top of my head would be (using 2.6)

print "you are", age

or

print "you are %d" % age

The reason 'age' is recognized as a string is because python uses "" and '' to encapsulate strings that way you can do stuff like this

print 'she said "how old are you"'