Python, user input as a function argument not working: TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Question

I just started learning Python yesterday, so this is probably a stupid question. Nonetheless I have been searching for the solution for a while and couldn't find it: Here is my very basic program:

def year(year):
  try:
    print(int(year))
  except:
    print("you did not enter a year")


if __name__ == "__main__":
  year = input("what year? ")
  year(year)

The thing is that, when I am running it in the terminal I get this message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "fonctions.py", line 24, in <module>
    year(year)
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Could someone help me sort this out? Thank you! Olivier

Answer 1

Change the input variable name, because in here python is interpreting that it is calling the year variable, not the function:

if __name__ == "__main__":
  year_val = input("what year? ")
  year(year_val)