🔒 why does it say str object not callable

[mighty tinsel]

@agile night

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[agile night]

oh so I restarted the whole thing, and it solved it

but still, why did it happen tho

[raw juniper]

At some point in the past you did input = and it stores a string now.

Even if the cell got deleted/fixed, the executed code's effects stay - but when you restart, only currently existing cells are executed

(To fix it without restarting, you'd want to add del input to delete your overwritten version of the name that hides the builtin name.

And since the offending input = doesn't exist anymore in your code, you'd want to delete that cell after running as well - because after restart it wouldn't have any overwritten input to delete)

!e

input = "something"
# possibly many lines after
a = input("this will error")

[mighty tinsel]

:x: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 | Traceback (most recent call last):
002 |   File "/home/main.py", line 3, in <module>
003 |     a = input("this will error")
004 |         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
005 | TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

[agile night]

ahhhh yh that makes sense

thankssss

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