Concatenation

Learn to join text with + and join.

String concatenation

To join two strings use the + operator. This is called concatenation:

first = "Hello"
second = "World"
print(first + " " + second)  # Hello World

Remember to add a space; + does not add one automatically. Joining many strings with + gets tiring; an f-string is more readable.

You can multiply a string by a number; it repeats the string that many times:

print("ab" * 3)   # ababab
print("-" * 10)  # ----------

This is handy for separators and decorative output. If the number is zero or negative, you get an empty string.

Assign first = "Hello" and second = "World". Print print(first + " " + second).

Show example solution

first = "Hello"
second = "World"
print(first + " " + second)

Complete the concatenation

print("Hello" + ____ + "World")

Show answer

print("Hello" + " " + "World")

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