title: I am trying to compare an item from a tuple and a list but get an error
body: <p>I just started coding 3 weeks ago for my python game development class. I am trying to compare an item from a tuple and an item from a list and get a response. Whenever I run the code, I get the error that the tuple item is not callable. I will post the code below. Please help me if you know what is wrong. Thank you! </p>
  
  <pre><code>pick_up = "Yes"
  
  i = 0
  
  bag = ()
  
  if not bag:
      print("You are empty-handed.")
  
  print("\nYou have found some items")
  
  pick_up = input("\nDo you wish to pick them up? Yes/No")
  
  if pick_up == "Yes":
  
      print("You have successfully picked up the items!")
  
      bag = (" Knife ", " Gum ", " Water ",
           " Bandages ", " Toilet Paper ")
  
      print("\nThese are the items in your bag:")
      print(bag)
  
  if pick_up == "No":
       print("You remain empty handed")
  
  howMany = len(bag)
  print ("This is how many items are in your bag:", howMany)
  
  while i &lt; howMany:
      print("\nThis is item:" + str(i) + bag[i])
      i = i + 1
  
  grab = "Yes"
  j = 0
  inventory = []
  
  print ("\nYou have found some items")
  
  grab = input("\nDo you wish to pick them up? Yes/No")
  
  if grab == "Yes":
  
      print("You have succesffuly picked up the items!")
  
      inventory = [" Knife "," Napkins "," A McDonald's Drinking Straw "," A Shoe Lace ", " Banana "]
  print("\nThese are the items in your inventory:")
  
  print(inventory)
  
  if grab == "No":
      print("You are empty handed")
  
  howMuch = len(inventory)
  print("This is how many items are in your inventory:", howMuch)
  
  while j &lt; howMuch:
      print("\nThis is item:" + str(j) + inventory[j])
      j = j + 1
  
  if inventory[0] == bag("Knife"):
      print("We have a match!")
  
  if inventory[0] != bag( 0 ):
      print ("No like items")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>All help is appreciated! Thank you!</p>