なんでやねん。__str__ は str とちゃうんか。

$ python3.9 x.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/u-suke/x.py", line 8, in <module>
  '区切'.join(l)
TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, type found
$ cat -n x.py
   1 #!/usr/bin/python3
   2
   3 class C:
   4   def __str__(self):
   5     return 'いろは'
   6
   7 l = [C, C, C]
   8 '区切'.join(l)