What is the purpose of the parentheses after the input function

Question

name = input()
print(name)

Answer 1

print is a function.
print(name) is a function call.

input is a function.
input() is a function call.

Try entering a string argument into the parentheses and see what happens. For example:
name = input("What is your name?")

Answer 2

Hi Alexandre NAROLLES / Solutionist Thinker

In Python a function is called with parentheses. Inside it you can put arguments, if the function allow it.
In Python input is a function, and not a statement. You can read about it by running:

help(input)

Answer 3

The purpose is that you can add some text before the cursor.