Compilation Issue in VSCode Jupyter Notebook Environment

[profRidha]

Type: Bug

In a VSCode Jupyter Notebook environment, when the following line of code is executed:

print = ("Hello World")

No syntax or runtime error is raised.

However, after replacing this line with:

print("Hello World")

The following error occurs:

TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

This issue is resolved by restarting the Python interpreter, suggesting a compilation or state management problem in the notebook environment.

Extension version: 2025.1.2024121301
VS Code version: Code 1.96.2 (fabdb6a30b49f79a7aba0f2ad9df9b399473380f, 2024-12-19T10:22:47.216Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3220 CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 x 3293)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	3.90GB (0.74GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 112baf61-ccbc-43d1-90db-9e4d7a969c3f
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

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[DonJayamanne]

This is expected, you are replacing the print function with a string
This issue would repro in python REPL as well (outside vscode)
Basically this is a by design and how python runtime works