Weirdness calling str() to convert integer to string in Python 3?

Question

The below code is giving me an error?

>>> variable = str(21)

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<pyshell#101>", line 1, in <module>

    variable = str(21)

TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Answer 1

That code alone does not give you the error. For example:

~ $ python3.2

>>> variable = str(21)

>>> variable

'21'

Somewhere in your code, you have defined the str = something else, hiding the built-in definition of str. So you need to remove it, then your code will work fine.

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