NameError name 'name' is not defined

[AndromedaDietrich]

Hi! I'm entirely new to coding via ren'py, though I have been acquainted with games made via the engine before.
Note: Any indentation I do results in an "unexpected indentation" error.

# The script of the game goes in this file.

# Declare characters used by this game. The color argument colorizes the
# name of the character.

# The game starts here.

label start:
$ name=""

$name = renpy.input("What is your name?")
$name = name.strip()
if name = "none":
$ name = "You"

define e = Character("Everett")
define E = Character("Ebenezer")
define j = Character("Judson")
define h = Character("Hieronymous")
define uk = Character("????????")
define u = Character([name])


scene bg room


# These display lines of dialogue.

"Hello, [player_name]."

# This ends the game.

return


Error Log:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/script.rpy", line 21, in script
define u = Character([name])
File "game/script.rpy", line 21, in <module>
define u = Character([name])
NameError: name 'name' is not defined

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "game/script.rpy", line 21, in script
define u = Character([name])
File "C:\Users\tasos\Desktop\Renpy\renpy-7.1.3-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 1979, in execute
value = renpy.python.py_eval_bytecode(self.code.bytecode)
File "C:\Users\tasos\Desktop\Renpy\renpy-7.1.3-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1937, in py_eval_bytecode
return eval(bytecode, globals, locals)
File "game/script.rpy", line 21, in <module>
define u = Character([name])
NameError: name 'name' is not defined

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 7.1.3.1092
Untitledfornow 1.0
Fri Dec 28 15:18:21 2018

[Alex]

Try to add this line of code

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default name = "???"

Hint: it doesn't matter where you put default and define statements - they will run before the start label, so it's more convinient to put all this lines together at the begining of the script (before start label).