How do I concatenate a boolean to a string in Python?

Question

I want to accomplish the following

answer = True
myvar = \"the answer is \" + answer

and have myvar\'s value be \"the answer is True\". I\'m pr

Answer 1

answer = True
myvar = "the answer is " + str(answer)

Python does not do implicit casting, as implicit casting can mask critical logic errors. Just cast answer to a string itself to get its string representation ("True"), or use string formatting like so:

myvar = "the answer is %s" % answer

Note that answer must be set to True (capitalization is important).