title: input() returning Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name '___' is not defined
body: <p>I am learning python basics and when using the input function i am getting certain errors. </p>
  
  <pre><code>What is your name? Michael
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "new.py", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  name = input("What is your name? ")
  File "&lt;string&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  NameError: name 'Michael' is not defined
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried deleting and reinstalling all packages and I cannot figure out what is the issue with this.</p>
  
  <p>The program is as follows. </p>
  
  <pre><code>name = input("What is your name? ")
  print(name)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Not sure what i'm doing wrong. Also im using python version 3.6.5 on Visual Studio Code.</p>