I am writing a simple commandline script that uses raw_input, but it doesn't seem to work.
This code:
print "Hello!"
raw_input("")
Produces this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module>
raw_input("")
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
I have never encountered this error before, and couldn't find anything on Google. I am using Python 2.6 on Windows 7.
It appears you are using something called pyshell. There is likely a bug there in that shell itself. Try just using vanilla bash.
Works fine as presented, e.g. in an interpreter prompt in any Python 2 version:
>>> print "Hello!"
Hello!
>>> raw_input("")
bah
'bah'
>>>
where bah is what I typed after the code you gave in response to the empty-prompt;-).
The only explanation for the error you mention is that you've performed other code before this, which included binding identifier raw_input to a string.
