title: how to omit parenthesis in return from a python def
body: <p>Hello I am trying to build a function to count words, the return has to be "salad:0 hamburger:2 water:1" Notice that each item is formatted as name of the item,a colon symbol,count of the item and all item groups are separated by a space, what I am getting is the following ('salad:', 1, 'hamburger:', 2, 'water:', 2) how can I take all the () and '' off of the return </p>
  
  <p>my code the following: </p>
  
  <pre><code>def item_order (order = ""):
  
      order = order
  
      s = order.count('salad')
      h = order.count('hamburger')
      w = order.count('water')
  
      return 'salad:',s, 'hamburger:',h, 'water:',w                       
  
  print  item_order('water hamburger water hamburger salad')
  </code></pre>