[SOLVED]How to add characters to an already defined variable

[PhZXgames]

So I kinda want to know this for future reference, but how on earth do you add characters (letters, numbers, symbols, spaces) to an already defined variable? Like I want the player's name to be whatever they want it to be, but with a fixed last name for story purposes. so like, if someone, per say, a teacher were to call them by their full name, ("player_name Reia") how would you do that?

I used a basic renpy.input line for the player to put in any name they want. This sets the name they chose to the variable "Player_name". the second line just removes any spaces at the end.

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    $ player_name = renpy.input("What is your name?")

    $ player_name = player_name.strip()

And I already took a stab at it, by using this line, which failed miserably:

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$ player_name_full = player_name.add( Reia)

Specifically I got this error message:
AttributeError: 'str' has no attribute 'add'

One, what does /|\ that mean and two how would I do what I'm trying to do? Thanks!

[KimiYoriBaka]

An attribute is anything a python object might have as part of it. In the case of that message, it's just telling you that python strings (called by the class name str) don't have an add() function. The technical term for what you're trying to do is "concatenate", which just means to combine strings together. In python (and thus in renpy, and pretty much all languages I've seen used for scripting) you can add them together like numbers. Just remember that strings go in quotation marks.

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$ player_name_full = player_name + " Reia"