Answer 1

You first turned your string into a tuple, which means that both 'letters' were stored in a tuple separately.

Then you used str on the tuple, which creates a string representation of the tuple. And that looks like when you're printing a tuple.

If you want to 'reconnect' your string, you have to use:

my_string = ''.join(tuple(your_string))

This 'glues together' the separate letters, without any space. You can enter something in the quotation marks, then that string will ne glued in between).