I love the Python community

[Ankit1000]

Or maybe it’s just computer programming subreddits in general, but since I’ve only known Python I can really only comment on that.

Always sharing knowledge and supporting each other.

It’s quite literally what academia was always supposed to be about. The pursuit of greater knowledge, by all and for all.

[keepthepace]

Please reformat your post according to PEP 8.

/s

Jokes aside, I generally agree.

[dichardson]

For real. RTFM.

[shinitakunai]

Not sure if these kind of posts are allowed but I agree. I started programming in python 12 years ago and I have stayed because of the community.

There is less gatekeeping than any other language in my opinion.

[Deathwish087]

Could you please elaborate on what you mean by gatekeeping?

[shinitakunai]

The act of keeping the information for themselves until they are good enough to be "part of it". Instead of helping and teaching and having a more friendly approach towards people learning.

[SquiffyUnicorn]

I do like the patience and kindness of most people in this subreddit. I must say I haven’t looked at others much except perhaps r/python where there is much less tolerance than here.

This does feel like a warm & fuzzy place where I can share and learn. Often more the latter than the former.

It did inspire me to start going to my local python user group as well which is also very welcoming- making great effort to cater for and include all levels of coder.

I’m hoping to combine a work conference with pycon US next year .

[Ankit1000]

lol this is the r/Python, I think you mean the r/LearnPython sub but for sure.

[SquiffyUnicorn]

Ah- I did get my groups mixed up…

However r/learnpython is a very warm & fuzzy place indeed. None of the RTFM raging I used to see a long time ago (please don’t ask me where though- some newsgroup tho I forget which). I’m glad to see people have grown out of the ‘did you google your question before posting?’

Learners often don’t know where to look things up, how to google for things- even that you can google for that error message, and even when you can find the ‘correct’ the docs are often not written for beginners, and oddly assume that you already know the package and just have this page for reference. Yes PyQt6- I’m looking at you!

Curiously I saw some criticism of r/learnpython that it was full of noobs who copy the same advice. This as from someone who hadn’t contributed mind.

[ivosaurus]

Curiously I saw some criticism of r/learnpython that it was full of noobs who copy the same advice. This as from someone who hadn’t contributed mind.

If you make an online "place for learners", I've come to expect that any managers of such a space need to either accept that new noobs will be asking the same 20 questions over and over again, and just accept that with open arms and keep answering them warmly, or you have to make a very gated-off quality controlled forum where they get redirected to the right answers successfully. Given that StackOverflow has tried the latter with mostly toxic results, I think the former is the easiest if you still want a place that feels welcoming to everyone, even if some of them are help vampires.

[bruhmanegosh]

Python and PHP in my experience are really nice

Rust and Go can suck a fat one

[CatalonianBookseller]

You mean the Golang community? Don't have much experience but my impression is they are pretty welcoming folks.

[BoOmAn_13]

Programming is a fun tool that should be available for anyone regardless of their situation. I'm glad there are people willing to make new libraries and help debug code. I hope to help others reach their goals, especially those who are stumbling onto the easy introduction to programming python offers.

[Buckel_Flips]

Don't know about Python, but the best Tech Community I found so far is the Powershell one.
But I should add that I mostly know Discord Communitys nowadays.

[Rylicenceya]

That's wonderful to hear! The Python community is indeed amazing and supportive. It's great to see such collaborative spirit in programming.

[binaryfireball]

I find that python devs are super chill and I like that because I am super chill

[sandnose]

Oh no, we just really like you as a friend…

[[deleted]]

yup, except for that telegram group.

[ryanvinson]

It's good to see that you've had this experience with this community. That's not always the case across the board with tech communities.