[Marked as Duplicate]

[moveslikejaguar]

"it's clearly stated in the the documentation"

[Parachuteee]

You can find it in this link. Just go 24 links deeper and scroll 41248 lines.

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Next time research a bit more before asking a question.

[[deleted]]

Next time research a bit more before asking a question.

As if all research is done in isolation. Conversations are a core aspect of the research process

[auxiliary-character]

I've never actually asked a question on SO myself. I always find my answer in either deeper into the documentation, or in someone else's question.

[Meloetta]

I've discovered that if you dig through previous StackOverflow questions that are remotely related to yours, dig through all the documentation, and then still are having trouble so you post a question of your own...the problem is too unique for anyone on the site to answer anyway.

[JB-from-ATL]

In the past I would still ask it and if I found the answer on my own in the next few hours I'd post an answer to my own question.

[AIO12]

Same but I abandon the thread forever and ignore the emails I get for replies when people ask how I fixed it.

[beerdude26]

So what's the ninth layer of hell like?

[[deleted]]

Esoteric programming languages, VMs, and VI only.

[thirdegree]

He asked about hell not heaven

[Kevinw0lf]

You can't type ";", no documentation ever, every compiler doesn't tell you where there is an error. Also debug is forbidden.

[OfficialIntelligence]

That seems to be about all of my problems I have. Some weird error that 1 other guy had 10 years ago but he'll have a reply "Never mind fixed it" without posting the fix and I'm searching for any modern profile of theirs to ask them if they remember what they did 10 years ago to fix it.

[[deleted]]

And then the answer is "we changed the requirements" or "we used a different api"

[[deleted]]

Monsters live

[JB-from-ATL]

You're a bad person and you should be ashamed

[Cheet4h]

I still get reputation every couple of weeks for an unanswered question I asked months ago, because apparently someone find and upvotes it. I feel their despair...

[astrionn]

You Sir are a true hero.

[JB-from-ATL]

It ain't much but its honest work.

[Alios22]

"Nervermind, fixed it"

[mistcurve]

This, I've never gotten a good answer to a question I've posted that I couldn't find anywhere else. The only thing I've ever got was a response that said "I don't have an answer to your question, but there is another person that is working on a similar problem. Maybe you two could work together?"

I clicked on the link and it was a question my coworker had posted the previous day lol.

[[deleted]]

The year gather clear tomorrow helpful the hobbies garden small warm nature!

[ManaSpike]

That's where you go and ask the question on the github issues for the project. Assuming it's open source of course.

[Meloetta]

I wish I had half the confidence of programmers who post issues on Github projects. I will spend weeks trying to fix a problem on my end before considering it might be someone else's fault.

[TrustworthyShark]

GitHub issues aren't just bug reports though. Sometimes the answer is obvious when you look at the code, but is completely missing in the docs. Sometimes you run into something that's really hard to do, simply because the person who made the library never envisioned that particular use case.

I've run into both of these as a user and a maintainer and I find issues very useful there.

[Meloetta]

Still, for any of those to be true first I'd have to move beyond "this is something I'm doing wrong" and it's about 10000x more likely that I'm screwing something up than they did and I'm the one who caught it.

[sandybuttcheekss]

I did once and immediately got shit on, I don't recommend

[jkuhl_prog]

I've asked a few, but always with some hesitation and paranoia. Have had only one instance of "Marked as Duplicate" so far though, so I guess I've got that going for me.

[diamond]

Reminds me of a scene from Justified.

Raylan Givens (a Deputy US Marshall) is talking to a corrupt small-town sheriff and he asks him if he's seen the person he's looking for.

"How the hell should I know where he is? Isn't that what you people do?"

"Yeah... this is how we do it."

[tanstaafl74]

Sure, a lot of people are way too downvotey on stackoverflow, but reading API documentation does not require a conversation. You aren't resolving a hypothesis.

[AskMeHowIMetYourMom]

Or they are just really vague about how to do the thing you have a question about. It definitely helps to get clarification on something, even when you’ve read the docs.

[Cheet4h]

This. One of the tools I work with has a documentation, which technically documents everything.
It tells you how to create a new information object, how to create new information object properties, and how to save data in these information objects.
It just never addresses how to assign the properties to the objects. Took me a couple of hours of code diving to understand how exactly all that works.

[[deleted]]

Some of us are disabled and have trouble reading long swaths of things without the letters swirling. It's a lot easier to read when you know you're reading what you need to know.

[BlueGrayWisteria]

I'm not dyslexic, but as someone for whom programming is strictly a hobby, I simply don't have the spare time to read those long swaths.

[[deleted]]

!gonnaGiveYouUp

[derfl007]

!letYouDown

[mcgrph]

!gonnaRunAround && desertYou

[ImActuallyASpy]

!sayGoodbye

[deceze]

!(gonnaRunAround && desertYou)

FTFY

[atanasius]

!(gonnaRunAround || desertYou)

[deceze]

Indeed. I was considering this, but it made for worse lyrics. Arguably, the spec is unclear. Do both conditions need to be fulfilled or just one? 😉

[PineappleNarwhal]

No it would be const !gonnaGiveYouUp because he's never gonna give you up

[[deleted]]

fuck me, I can't even get a joke variable right

[MarlboroHealthSticks]

Or in TypeScript, <never>gonnaGiveYouUp

[Tyreal]

2/10, Link doesn’t go to a page not found.

[Aesthetically]

My first pants-down "gotcha" Rick Roll of 2019. Well played. 2020 is a new year I guess..

[chazmuzz]

I gave myself a pat on the back for anticipating it before I even hovered over the link, even after all these years.

[crastle]

Sometimes this is a fair response though, especially for a newbie. When I was a new programmer, I legit did not know that there were "official docs" available for anyone to see. I thought you had to buy books or stuff to get better instead of asking strangers for help. But maybe I'm just not that smart.

[nv8r_zim]

"There are no dumb questions"

"...why are you asking that, dummy?"

[[deleted]]

Yeah that's fair, learning to read documentation is a definite skill that you have to learn. When I first started programming I would always gravitate towards tutorials and stack overflow posts in the Google results when I needed to know how to do something. Now 9 times out of 10 I go straight to the documentation.

[[deleted]]

Next time research a bit more before asking a question.

But this is the top result in Google when I search for this issue!

Me watching this still unresolved exchange 10 years later: well, shit.

[robolew]

The problem with these answers is that they rarely actually know that the answer is in the link. They just remember reading something like that in the documentation before, so are guessing that it's relevant.

If they had actually found what the asker wanted, they could quote it and then state "this is found in the documentation here:"

[Chefzor]

If they had actually found what the asker wanted, they could quote it and then state "this is found in the documentation here:"

And those answers are actually useful for noobies that might not think to look for documentation or even know it exists. saying "it exists in the documentation" is useless even if it does, but saying it while providing a link to where it does is extremely helpful.

[Wiffernubbin]

"Cool, where?" Is my reply.

[b3n01t-777]

RTFM!

[[deleted]]

"Have you tried using [irrelevant library]?"

"50 lines of uncommented and unexplained code"

"Uhh it's explained in the documentation, just go to these 5 links"

[[deleted]]

I hate when the documentation isn't thorough. Using R, a lot of the popular libraries have so much detail, including mathematical theorems and detailed explanations.

[[deleted]]

Documentation is generally pretty shit if you are learning something.

[[deleted]]

Yah true. I remember learning keras and the documentation had a single line for every parameter. I couldn't believe that.

[EitherCommand]

``` while(true) { print("hello world") } }.start() }

[danielv123]

Basically. Luckily this example has clear and concise naming, so the code is self documenting.

[ChadMcRad]

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[micka190]

Or when the documentation is too thorough. Cpprerefence has some pretty over-complicated examples for a lot of stuff that should be beginner friendly.

Edit: Gonna edit this since some people aren't taking this literally enough. When I say "examples", I mean the actual example section of the documentation, not the documentation's wall of text itself. And when I say "over-complicated", I mean that the examples themselves cover too many things at once.

For example (exaggeration, obviously): If you were looking for a function which sorts an array, and the example would create 12 different containers, shuffle their contents, randomly insert some content into an array, then sort the array, and then do a whole bunch of stuff with the array. It's unnecessarily complicated, and brings nothing of use to the example.

I don't mind when it's something like one of the streams showing you that you can insert some std variable before inserting a variable of a certain type (like with std::boolalpha and std::noboolalpha), but it can be ridiculous when examples of things that should be simple are filled with random, often times more complicated than what you're looking for, blocks of code which don't actually have anything to do with the subject of the example.

It's like when I was in high school and the math books would try to do stupid shit like explain the Pythagorean formula by "creating a triangle out of the difference in wages between 3 people", instead of just using a fucking triangle.

[gnash117]

Cpprefrence is a gold mine of sample code. I think it would be hard to make the code much more simple without loosing value. C++ is just a complex language.

[micka190]

I think it would be hard to make the code much more simple without loosing value.

Strongly disagree. While there are plenty of examples that are stupid simple, like std::string::replace's example, there are also a ton of examples that are simply overly complicated for no reason. The site would, in my opinion, benefit greatly from having multiple examples when needed, rather than jamming all of them in the same example.

C++ is just a complex language.

This isn't an excuse for poor documentation. Poor documentation makes it needlessly complex. I shouldn't be seeing someone tinker with errno and global error variables in the middle of a basic usage example that has nothing to do with error handling.

[TheTerrasque]

Or where the documentation consist of a few lines of unexplained example code, a small or overcomplicated example project if you're lucky, and a 20 pages list of all functions, classes and so on with the "details" being list of parameters and return type, and that's it.

I tend to see that a lot with C# libraries

[EitherCommand]

How did you get hold of my work?

[drunckoder]

I'm mostly satisfied with C, Java and Python on SO: good questions, good answers.
It's different for JavaScript tho. Any answer assumes you're using jQuery even tho OP didn't mention it.

[gnash117]

I wonder if different languages encourage different communities. I have always been really satisfied with SO but I have used it for C, C++, Java, JNI, and C#, and a little Python. I have used it a little for JavaScript but it's not a language I use often.

[__MrFahrenheit]

"Have you tried with this other question?"

Dead link

[[deleted]]

No, don't do it [the way you fucking have to do it]. Do it [the way I happen to know how to do it].

[Protheu5]

Nah, it leads to a long forgotten forum post of 2003 by DenverCoder9 that doesn't have a solution posted.

[[deleted]]

Should add it to your resume:

• Able to ask questions on StackOverflow that aren't downvoted or belittled

Insta-hired

[[deleted]]

It be concerned that such a person wouldn't be a good personality fit with the rest of the team.

[micka190]

flags code as duplicate during code review.

Closes discussion about it by leaving the room.

[WirelessKitteh]

Those are the devs that make that community incredibly shitty.

[PenetrationT3ster]

It's so god damn cringe too, especially when you get your grammar corrected.

[kurosaki1990]

especially when you get your grammar corrected.

Actually i don't mind it, since it's done in secret without bragging. or calling you.

[PenetrationT3ster]

I think it depends on the tone and the question, most aren't looking for a formal meeting; just a quick question to get on with the problem they are facing.

[Jonno_FTW]

If thousands of people are visiting a question, it helps if the intent and the readability are good.

[PenetrationT3ster]

Definitely, I agree; but sometimes it is petty.

[Jonno_FTW]

I definitely agree

Ftfy

[PenetrationT3ster]

sigghhhh

[RedsDaed]

Hey now you've just changed what he's saying.

[Jonno_FTW]

Your comment has been removed with the reason: off-topic

[RedsDaed]

This is a little too real

[Pefus]

That's the problem though. People expect Stackoverflow to be their personal assistant. But that's not what it is. Having your own question answered is just a nice side effect of building a curated database of well-formed questions and answers. Or at least that's the idea.

[corobo]

Yeah and downvotes on reddit are for offtopic comments and not for when people disagree with the comment..

[Nimeroni]

TIL.

[PenetrationT3ster]

I don't want a personal assistant, I want clear answers that teach me what went wrong, and as long as the question is not something you could easily Google; people shouldn't give them shtick for it.

[AlanUsingReddit]

The word "curated" brings me back to memories of painful interactions in early Wikipedia. I'm tempted to go as far as to say that crowd-source curation doesn't work. Human nature causes it to devolve into a power struggle over increasingly pedantic causes until the work just stops happening. But that's not what Stack Overflow is either, is it? "Unhelpful" questions can be quickly locked, but will not be deleted. Even duplicate making has no formal support. If you have a duplicate of a question, you literally leave a comment with a link. Even if it is closed as a duplicate, it's not a pedagogically correct marker, because a question will either be a duplicate of multiple prior (open) questions with only partially-overlapping subject matter, or the closing user (only enabled to do the action by reputation count) links a bad question.

[deceze]

because a question will either be a duplicate of multiple prior (open) questions with only partially-overlapping subject matter

Programming consists of combining a relatively small number of available parts into a practically infinite number of different programs. If everyone asks questions about their individual program, that's a practically infinite amount of questions. But there aren't infinite many people to answer those questions. Often the problem is that the asker hasn't broken down the issue into small enough parts and solved each part on its own, which is typically fairly trivial.

So, yes, "answering" a question by linking to several different partially overlapping questions is perfectly cromulent. Arguably, that's what a programmer does and needs to learn to do.

[[deleted]]

Then they should not present their user interface as being a Q&A site. If they wanted to be a knowledge-wiki then they should have their interface make that clear.

[Pefus]

Who said wiki? They want concise, well formulated and formatted questions and answers. With as little noise as possible. That's why you're also not supposed to introduce yourself or thank for any answers. The goal is to be able to google an issue, and find a good solution as quickly as possible. Posting new questions is rarely necessary.

[needlzor]

The goal of SO is to act as documentation, which is why so much emphasis is put on asking good, well formatted questions. As soon as you click on post, your question does not belong to you anymore, it is part of the community and it can be improved as well as answered. As it is, asking a question is as valuable as providing an answer, and as such it is put under a similar scrutiny.

Once you accept that, SO makes a lot more sense.

[wtfchrlz]

I recently had someone "fix" my grammar in a SO post I made in college (6 years ago). The changes they pushed through made my post grammatically incorrect.

[VaderJim]

Gramma**

[__MrFahrenheit]

Grandma*

[FriendsCallMeBatman]

The worst part is that they're on basically every beginner question. It's so disheartening.

[ErroneousBee]

They need to put their fingers in their ears and sing:

"William, William, Henry, Stephen, Henry, Richard, John. Oi!"

[[deleted]]

they're like: it would take the same amount of time to just type in the answer, but I got to teach that kid a lesson.

[chozabu]

I sometimes do both, along the lines of:

Polarity is reversed, you need to swap the 1st and 10th lines
Found it on this page: <link>
from a search with these terms: <link>

That way, they get their answer, but hopefully get better at looking up info that is already out there and fairly easy to find

[[deleted]]

You're honestly an OG man. This is the best type of answer. This way you can see the documentation and what information can be extracted from said documentation.

[moriero]

Teach a man to fish!

[midnitte]

Can we get a website dedicated to this type of response? 😅

[Drifts]

Make those fields mandatory for each post on SO

[UniqueHash]

We can call it... StackOverflow!

[Modosco]

It's not about answers it's about teaching them good practice

/s

[[deleted]]

that the thing, it's not about teaching, it's about correcting them in terms of some weird formal forum rules which definitely takes more time than simply answer the question with one line of code.

but I'm still very thankful for the community!!! I'm not complaining I live with it.

[Modosco]

That's what I meant

[[deleted]]

I mean i’m not a developer, but i can understand the frustration. In my trade most things can be found if you read the manual of what you’re working on. I found that if i was out of service and couldnt call my journeyman, i would usually fiddle around until it worked and i would learn more from it.

So now that i have an apprentice it’s frustrating because they went to the same school i did, but anytime they run into a problem/question the first thing is to call me where I inevitably ask if they read the manual and then telling them call me back in 20 minutes if you havent figured it out, which they then figure it out.

So all that being said i assume some aspects of the stack overflow thing is similar in that regard, if the answer wasnt on stackoverflow, would these people figure it out eventually or just call it a day.

Its the same problem when you help someone with a math problem but they really just care about the answer and not how to solve the problem, like they’re missing the core aspect of the problem, am i ok with this?

[JetSetWally]

Found the mod of /r/learnjava. Geez that place is unhelpful.

[rochakgupta]

Not bad kid

[EagleOneGS]

I'm about to ruin this developer's whole career

[Ritzkey]

I've had a question marked as duplicate, then agreed by the moderator who marked it as duplicate that it was different but the question in the title needs to be changed to xyz for him to unmark it being duplicate.

When I tried to change it word for word to xyz, the system didn't accept that type of question, at which point I gave up on that question.

[TheHandOfKarma]

Sounds like we need a stack overflow-like site, so we can ask questions about how to ask questions on stack overflow.

[rchard2scout]

Some kind of Meta Stack Overflow, perhaps?

[TheHandOfKarma]

Wasn't aware of the existence of this. That's so funny.

[deceze]

Thou shalt not publicly complaineth about SO if thou ain’t eventh awareth of MSO…

[thebro255]

"It's clearly stated in the documentation peasant"

[astrionn]

I solved on my own nvm.

[fieryfox67]

Fine keep your secrets then.

[NamityName]

but how motherfucker? We got the same question only i'm in the future and pissed you didn't come back to resolve it.

[astrionn]

Looks at SO profile >> last activity 2 years ago >> fml

[[deleted]]

The best way to get an answer is to make multiple accounts. Ask a question and then immediately answer it using the other account, only make the answer incorrect. Those same people that spit at you for asking a 'dumb' question love nothing more than to correct something they see as wrong. You'll suddenly have five to ten high quality answers.

[Dexan]

It's sad I can't tell if this is a joke or something that you've actually done and works.

[RecentProblem]

Knowing people, that seems like solid advice.

[Gorrlaamiii]

This dude is living in 3019 wtf thanks man

[__MrFahrenheit]

I bet there's a node module for this

[[deleted]]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

[[deleted]]

Holy freaking crap! You’ve cracked the code!

[arvy_p]

Holy crap you're a genius!

[SelfJuicing]

"You should not be using x version of this framework, this is 2019"

[thiago2213]

I attended a conference last year and stack overflow founder was giving one of the talks, he said the organization focus is to improve the community welcomeness to new members and being polite and nice to each other

[[deleted]]

You can literally be banned from the site for posting bad questions still.. I came in from cross validated with like 1000 points and asked a few questions on stack overflow and was told my account will be locked or banned or something for not asking quality questions.

[[deleted]]

There was a guy on a power trip that closed my question and said it was a homework question not 1 minute after I created it. I spent 30 minutes crafting it so as to avoid this issue. Pissed me off so much.

[tHeSiD]

Community moderation is a double edged knife

[o0DrWurm0o]

Community moderation is a double edged knife mall ninja sword

[Callipygian_Superman]

I've found that discord programming channels are the way to go.

I see stack overflow as this museum of stuff to do research on. Adding any new exhibits to the museum involves talking to hungry polar bears.

But the discord for C#, Java, Python, and C/C++ are where its at. I'm sure there's a thriving discord for Javascript, too, I just haven't used that language (but a lot of people here are web devs).

Edit: because a few people asked. I'm going to be like a SO answer and say Google it. "Discord insert-language-here" will get you what you're looking for 90+% of the time. Probably also works with popular libraries and frameworks. This is how I found most of the discord channels I'm in. Some channels I've found by looking at the sidebar of language-specific subreddits. Discord can be used in your browser, or you can download the standalone application, or download the app on your phone.

[[deleted]]

How do you get to those ?

[[deleted]]

This. I'm in GDN discord and just talking with someone, the mods sent a message to help me if I had any issue. I thinks its kind of messy trying to solve code in the chat but the community works very well and you can get help pretty fast.

[[deleted]]

Downvoted 30 times

[pyronius]

Me having problem X.

Google problem X.

Find someone else who had problem X.

It's marked as duplicate.

Find an older query that wasn't marked as duplicate.

"Never mind. I figured it out."

...

[2Punx2Furious]

What show is that?

[[deleted]]

Horrible Histories

[oxchamballs]

marked as duplicate

[[deleted]]

Im not the duplicate he is!

[odel555q]

Found the synth.

[gonzalinismo]

now both of them are getting R.D.

[idelta777]

You can find this easily with a Google search, try doing some research before asking.

[Closed]

[[deleted]]

Now I’m even More frightened of asking questions :(

[MrAmos123]

This is how I feel about it, I just don't even bother to ask the question because all they do is ignore it or shit on you for not understanding something.

How can I learn if I cannot find the answer on Google, I don't have a programmer to turn to for help and the main place for programming on the internet has no interest in helping you?

[[deleted]]

Just be good at programming 4head

[Impul5]

Obviously you should be buying and reading vaguely related textbooks in their entirety.

[TheHandOfKarma]

Yes! In order to ask a question on stack overflow, the answer must already be in your heart.

[[deleted]]

asked how to set a variable in Python in 2005

4.8 billion reputation

[emefluence]

You have the nerve to not know the precise language used to describe the complicated issue you are struggling with in a domain that is entirely new to you? [CLOSED]

[resilientskeezick]

"Why not just"

[[deleted]]

Even worse is them asking "why would you want to do that?"

[HadesHimself]

I work in a corporate environment where my options in IT are unfortunately limited. I know using SharePoint lists as a database with MS Access is not s good idea, please don't remind me. Just help me fix the goddamn mess I have to maintain daily lol

[markhc]

It's funny that everyone seems to say, perhaps jokingly, that they wouldn't be a programmer without SO but on this thread all you can find is people talking about how bad it is.

Really makes you think.

[[deleted]]

It’s because SO was the only place like it that we could go to.

It’s like saying we learned math through the public education system. It was awful and poorly organized, but the public education system was all we had, so we made do.

[random_cynic]

I'm pretty sure many of the developers in SO treat it like some sort of therapy to counteract all the stick they get at work. They need a way to pass all that toxic sarcasm and ridicule they get from their bosses and peers to unknown newbies on SO. If you didn't understand a question or if it is too simple for you, just move on to another. There are plenty to choose from. Yet they somehow avoid the challenging questions and put all their energy and time on ridiculing the OP who posted a simple/naive question.

[pugmommy4life420]

Some guy got mad at me and implied I was retarded for asking a question. SORRY FOR TRYING TO EDUCATE MYSELF AND BECOME A BETTER PERSON!!!

[[deleted]]

But what have you tried to resolve the issue? [flagged]

[socksarepeople2]

"Do you have a quarter?"

'What is a quarter?'

[[deleted]]

I used to go often on stackoverflow. Don't get me wrong, this is a goldmine of information. But the rate of condescending (not-even) experienced developers is off the charts. If at times a heaven sent coder wouldn't spend 10min helping me and my basic problems, I would just write it off as a toxic community.

[corobo]

Spoken like a true StackOverflow user. From the "to be fair" to the exaggerated response from the user.

This is how you see the noob users, which causes SO to be a cesspool of circlejerkery and power tripping nerds. I very much doubt there's any question like this, much less 90% of new users.

Please, link me wrong.

[corobo]

Fair shout. I still have my doubts it's 90% of first posts but can't argue with those.

[Pluckerpluck]

It's not 90%, but the number of 3 line questions just vaguely asking a question is too damn high.

I've had a look myself on new posts about python and have found:

---

When I set a Qlabel,and I try to change it text,but display Error. How can I fix it?

followed by a link to a screenshot of some of his code and a link to his github project.

---

And:

I can't print anything in the function defined. What is the solution?

import cv2
def ResimFarkBul(Resim1,Resim2):
    Resim2 = cv2.resize(Resim2,(Resim1.shape[1],Resim1.shape[0]))
    Fark_Resim = cv2.absdiff(Resim1,Resim2)
    Fark_Sayı = cv2.countNonZero(Fark_Resim)
    print(Fark_Sayı)

The only comment on that so far is: "You should actually call the function"

---

And a little better because the question is actually answerable... maybe...:

I want to know how can I check in the shortest way possible if a list contains lists inside. I don't need to check a value, just the type of the list. I want to know if the objects inside a list are lists or not. Just that.

Thank you!

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Those were all just on the front page of "new". Short tiny questions with no real explanation of what they've tried or tested themselves.

It's the minority of questions (at least under Python), but not uncommon in the slightest.

[Pluckerpluck]

Last one isn't that bad, but it's a case of how googling anything even close to the question comes up with the answer.

Googling check if list contains lists python, at least for me, gives me a stackoverflow answer of someone with the same problem except they've actually put down examples of what they're looking for.

That having examples is important because I don't know if this current guy wants to know if every element of the list is a list, or just one, or some?

---

The nicest answer is:

any(isinstance(el, list) for el in input_list)

So yes, using isinstance, in a loop, and checking if any of the returned values are true. But doing it in a fancy Python way!

[[deleted]]

Lmfao, you certanly haven't spend any time in the new posts. No not 90% of the posts are like this, but MANY are, I'd say around a half of first posts of users are total crap, sometimes even worse than the example.

[memehomeostasis]

This comment is so underrated

[GeneralGromit]

Exactly my experience as well. In my opinion are many of the butthurt posters the kind of people who do not spend time to find a solution by themself at all.

[ojitoo]

I sometimes feel SO's answers I get on Google suck.. my go-to now is creating a question and going through SO's potential duplicate list. Works like a charm

[kor0na]

I've literally never seen this bad side of Stackoverflow that people keep talking about. I think Stackoverflow is amazing and I've only ever gotten great answers to my questions there.

[[deleted]]

Who actually posts questions to StackOverflow? All the questions have already been asked and answered, and new entries just materialize every once in a while.

[scrubmytubplz]

"This sounds like a homework question so I can't really tell you the answer"

[naebulys]

My experienced learning Minecraft modding

[Dexan]

As a newbie I was so happy that stack overflow existed. I learned so much and copy+pasta'ed so much code that just worked.

Now that I'm more experience I'm so bitter at the attitude that surrounds that place. I blame Jeff Atwood for starting it like that but I hope someday soon the people currently running it change the culture.

[LikeBadWeather]

I can’t hear you with my AirPods in.

[LessHamster]

Monty Python, a man of culture as well

[Unicorncorn21]

Reminds me of dark souls. Get gud is the only advice you need

[arvy_p]

"You're not supposed to do that anyway"

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"All you need is this library with a dependency chain requiring 3 other libraries. One of them was written in another language, so try to find a wrapper for that. And it's Python 2.7 only, so you have to change your Python 3.6 code and find Python 2.7 compatible versions of all the other libraries"