Having issues with turning integers to strings and then concatenating

Question

I have an integer called score, I turn it into a string and then try to get python to print a string of score plus a few other strings

score = 0
str(score)
variable = (" you have" + score + "points")
print(variable)

However it just tells me that score is still an integer, how do I fix this?

Answer 1

Strings and numbers are immutable, so str and int don't change the underlying value, but instead return a new value that you have to use.

For example:

score = 0
score = str(score)
variable = " you have " + score + " points"
print(variable)

or

score = 0
variable = " you have " + str(score) + " points"
print(variable)

However, using f-strings is probably better in this situation:

score = 0
variable = f" you have {score} points"
print(variable)