Little problem with the "+" operator

[Alex Martelli]

"Zamurai" <zamurai at gmx.net> wrote in message
news:983802310.155838463 at news.t-online.de...
> I want to make the following:
> variableOne = 500
> myVariable = variableOne + "cool"
>
> But I get the following error: "unsupported operand types for +"

Right -- you can't add an integer and a string.

> Does someone know how to solve the problem?

Sure -- make both variables into strings, e.g.

    myVariable = str(variableOne) + "cool"


Alex