Why "Hello" and 42 Are Completely Different Things

You finished the last post. You stored your name in a variable. You stored your age. Both worked. But here's something that probably confused you. When you stored your name, you used quotes. When you stored your age, you didn't. And when you tried to combine them in a print statement, Python complained unless you added that str() thing. Why? Your name and your age are both just information. Why does Python care about the difference? Because to Python, they are not the same kind of thing at all.