[Fix] TypeError: str object is not callable in Python

Sample Python Code:

message = "I love Python"
print(message())

Error as in PyCharm:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/code2care/PycharmProjects/python-learnings/0-test.py", line 2, in <module>
    print(message())
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Error as in Jupyter Notebook:

TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[22], line 2
      1 message = "I love Python"
----> 2 print(message())

TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Reason for this error

As the error describes, it is a type error! where in the string object is treated as a function with parenthesis.

One of the other most common cause of this issue is if you define a variable of any datatype (int, float, list, tuple, dist, etc) and you name it as str and try to cast it to a string using the str function.

str = [1,2,3,4,5]
print(str(str))

Error:

Cell In[28], line 2
      1 str = [1,2,3,4,5]
----> 2 print(str(str))

TypeError: 'list' object is not callable

How to fix this error

The fix is simple, just remove the parenthesis () from the line where an str object is treated as a function mistakenly.

message = "I love Python"
print(message)

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