TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Python
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Dear friends,

I am new to Python programming language reading books and attending some online courses.

I am currently using the Visual Studio Code software.

During working on the “input” function, I typed “>>> name = input(‘ […]” (I ommitted the details) and I received the following message from the aforementioned software:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
TypeError: ‘str’ object is not callable

However, I typed the same command using the simple code editor that accompanies the python software, and I did not receive any mistake-related message.

Could anybody explain what is happening?

Thank you in advance.

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The details actually matter though…

We probably need to see your full code to be sure, but you shadowed the function named input by creating a variable named input.

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You are getting an error because you have a string and tried to call it like a function.
That’s all there is to say, given you decided to share virtually no code.

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The full command is:

name = input(‘What is your name?\n’)

(it is from a book)

When I type this command to the simple code editor it is ok.

The error message appears only with the Visual Studio Code.

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Then go through the code and look for the word “input”?
There propably is a line like input = "some text" → Python will then just override the keyword with the string. That’s what Jeremy meant with “shadowed”, somewhere in the code, this is happening.
As I am not super educated on the Python interpreter, I cannot say if the shadowing has to happen in a prior line or could be anywhere in the file or even imported modules…

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