Forcing type conversion

[Remco Gerlich]

Dale Strickland-Clark wrote in comp.lang.python:
> 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

The str() function.

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

Or use the % operator, of course.

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