Variable not defined even though it is

[CoderMerv]

Hi! Just started my coding journey and I am immediately running into an error. I am currently reading the book "Python Crash Course: A Hands-on, Project based Introduction to Programming" and am mimicking the examples on VSCode as I read along.

I am currently trying out this example from the book:

message = "hello world"
print(message)

Upon running this in VSCode, I keep getting this error:

Output:
>>> print(message)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'message' is not defined

What am I doing wrong?