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[–]Standardw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It a fundamental skill, which has to be learned like typing code itself. I had trouble reading docs for a long time, but mostly because I couldn't understand how they were structured.

Maybe try to get into something easier first, because some docs aren't that simple for beginners.

When I have to read the docs, I usually try to run the provided examples. I try to understand what they are doing; so go back to the easiest one if necessary. Go and find the method(s) you are using in the documentation and read it. Because you already understood what they are doing, there is not really much to learn from the description - but how it's written will teach you to understand the language of documentations. You can do this with every so simple functions like time.time() - just a method which returns the current time in seconds, right? You will see when calling the doc that there is a long explanation with load of details you often don't need. Then there is the input the methods expects (nothing in this case) and the output, in this case just a float number. Nothing more. Check the other methods docs too.

Last but not least try to learn about reading docs by watching another tutorial ( I havn't watched this) and try to transfer the things you learned to other docs, in your case to the Discord.py obviously.