Why can't I join this tuple in Python?

Question

e = (\'ham\', 5, 1, \'bird\')
logfile.write(\',\'.join(e))

I have to join it so that I can write it into a text file.

Answer 1

join only takes lists of strings, so convert them first

>>> e = ('ham', 5, 1, 'bird')
>>> ','.join(map(str,e))
'ham,5,1,bird'

Or maybe more pythonic

>>> ','.join(str(i) for i in e)
'ham,5,1,bird'