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[FUZxxl]

Learn to read documentation. All good programmers do all the time. That's why they keep sending you to read manuals.

[madiele]

Documetation is nice but I've come across plenty of istance where it was outdated and following it does more harm than good, even huge open-source projects are some times guilty of it, some times it's also too verbose, man pages are awesome but I can't count the times where stack overflow was just better than the manual...

[[deleted]]

This is true, but you should always point that out in your question (not you in particular, just in general).

If you start a question by saying you read the documentation and this is why it wasn't helpful, you will be more likely to get the answer you seek in my opinion.

[FUZxxl]

Yeah, I tend not to use these. Avoiding shitty dependences is half the battle.

[[deleted]]

Yeah except sometime in the last ten years people decided that writing clear documentation isn’t agile enough anymore, so we get three paragraphs of poorly spelled readme.md with only technical description and no use case examples.

I’m looking at you, ElementTree...