PyScripter - Why does this work?

Question

I am using the PyScripter integrated development environment and taking courses using Python 2.7.

Why does number = input("some input text") immediately display the python input dialog when the program is ran? Wouldn't we have to execute it? Because really, it's just setting a variable to a python input. It never says to execute it? Is number not just any variable?

There's a mini-forum which the site that I go to has, but have not received an answer in 5 days, so I came here.

Answer 1

Indeed number is variable and nothing more. See documentation on input().