How do you combine strings and ints?

How do you combine a string and an int in Python? For example, I was messing around with some of the winsound functions, and when I tried something like:

print "Bitrate: " + params[1]

Params[1] being the second element in the params array, which is contains information about the sound file (ie. type, bitrate, mono/stereo, etc.). I got an error saying I couldn't combine a string with an int (which, by the way is the stupidest syntax rule I've ever heard).

Either will work.

Have you gone through the tutorial on www.python.org ?

Converting the int to a string....duh! Why didn't I think of that?

Thanks!