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

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00:00 How Do I Concatenate A Boolean To A String In Python?
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ANSWER 1

Score 141

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).

ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 30

The recommended way is to let str.format handle the casting (docs). Methods with %s substitution may be deprecated eventually (see PEP3101).

>>> answer = True
>>> myvar = "the answer is {}".format(answer)
>>> print(myvar)
the answer is True

In Python 3.6+ you may use literal string interpolation:

 >>> print(f"the answer is {answer}")
the answer is True

ANSWER 3

Score 9

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

myvar = "the answer is %s" % answer

ANSWER 4

Score 3

Using the so called f strings:

answer = True
myvar = f"the answer is {answer}"

Then if I do

print(myvar)

I will get:

the answer is True

I like f strings because one does not have to worry about the order in which the variables will appear in the printed text, which helps in case one has multiple variables to be printed as strings.