Python Concatenating Strings and Numbers

I am a new Python programmer. I have a simple problem when try to concatenating strings and numbers in Python. For example, I create this this script :

a = 'I have '
b = 5
c = 'apples'
d = a + b + c
print d

When I try to running this script, I have this error  message :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tes.py", line 5, in <module>
    d = a + b + c
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects

This error show because we want to concatenating strings and numbers in Python. If we want to solve this problem,we can use string formating in Python. This is like in C/C++ or other language programming. We can solve problem above about concatenating strings and numbers in Python with this code :

a = 'I have '
b = 5
c = 'apples'
d = a + '%i ' %b + c
print d

This is ouput from concatenating strings and numbers in Python code above :

I have 5 apples

This is a table string formating conversion in Python from other data type :