it' often useful to combine strings for exampleyou might want to store first name and last name in separate variablesand then combine them when you want to display someone' full namefirst_name "adalast_name "lovelaceu full_name first_name last_name print(full_namepython uses the plus symbol (+to combine strings in this examplewe use to create full name by combining first_namea spaceand last_name ugiving this resultada lovelace this method of combining strings is called concatenation you can use concatenation to compose complete messages using the information you've stored in variable let' look at an examplefirst_name "adalast_name "lovelacefull_name first_name last_name print("hellofull_name title("!"herethe full name is used at in sentence that greets the userand the title(method is used to format the name appropriately this code returns simple but nicely formatted greetinghelloada lovelaceyou can use concatenation to compose message and then store the entire message in variablefirst_name "adalast_name "lovelacefull_name first_name last_name message "hellofull_name title("! print(messagethis code displays the message "helloada lovelace!as wellbut storing the message in variable at makes the final print statement at much simpler variables and simple data types