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

Use the csv module. It will save a follow-up question about how to handle items containing a comma, followed by another about handling items containing the character that you used to quote/escape the commas.

import csv
e = ('ham', 5, 1, 'bird')
with open('out.csv', 'wb') as f:
    csv.writer(f).writerow(e)

Check it:

print open('out.csv').read()

Output:

ham,5,1,bird