def normalize_tuple(value, n, name):
  """Transforms a single integer or iterable of integers into an integer tuple.

  Arguments:
    value: The value to validate and convert. Could an int, or any iterable
      of ints.
    n: The size of the tuple to be returned.
    name: The name of the argument being validated, e.g. "strides" or
      "kernel_size". This is only used to format error messages.

  Returns:
    A tuple of n integers.

  Raises:
    ValueError: If something else than an int/long or iterable thereof was
      passed.
  """
  if isinstance(value, int):
    return (value,) * n
  else:
    try:
      value_tuple = tuple(value)
    except TypeError:
      raise ValueError('The `' + name + '` argument must be a tuple of ' +
                       str(n) + ' integers. Received: ' + str(value))
    if len(value_tuple) != n:
      raise ValueError('The `' + name + '` argument must be a tuple of ' +
                       str(n) + ' integers. Received: ' + str(value))
    for single_value in value_tuple:
      try:
        int(single_value)
      except (ValueError, TypeError):
        raise ValueError('The `' + name + '` argument must be a tuple of ' +
                         str(n) + ' integers. Received: ' + str(value) + ' '
                         'including element ' + str(single_value) + ' of type' +
                         ' ' + str(type(single_value)))
    return value_tuple