What is wrong with this code

Question

This code is supposed to read a users input and it tells them if the item is in stock or not but it doeent appear to be workign and it’s showing a error

Could someone help me:

ages = {"apples": "instock", "oranges": "not in stock", "eggs": "in stock"}
input(ages("))

Answer 1

ages = {"apples": "instock", "oranges": "not in stock", "eggs": "in stock"}

user_input = input()

If you know that the user won't enter anything else than "apples", "oranges" or "eggs", you can call the value directly from the dictionary:

print(ages[user_input])

Otherwise, it's safer to use the .get method:

print(ages.get(user_input, 'not in stock'))

Answer 2

A version that should work:

ages = {"apples": "instock", "oranges": "not in stock", "eggs": "in stock"}
inp = input('what do you like: ')
if inp in ages:
print(ages.get(inp))
else:
print('not found')

Answer 3

Change line 3 with:

print(ages(int(input())))