title: What is the right way to add sections to an existing string
body: <p>I'm now to python and I wanted to know the correct way of doing this. I'm trying to add pieces to make a full string but I get symbols in the string output</p>
  
  <pre><code>def responseLibrary(days, hours, minutes, seconds):
  global globalSeconds
  response = globalSeconds, " seconds equals "
  
  if days &gt; 0:
      response += days, " days "
  if hours &gt; 0:
      response += hours, " hours "
  if minutes &gt; 0:
      response += minutes, " minutes "
  if seconds &gt; 0:
      response += seconds, " seconds "
  return response
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The output I get looks like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>(10, ' seconds equals ', 10, ' seconds ')
  </code></pre>