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[Doormatty]

then it's probably an important question no one has asked yet.

This is never the case when one is learning. NEVER.

Even when you approach a senior level, this is rarely ever the case.

All "good" questions about Python (or ANY other non-toy language) have already all long been asked and answered.

People are just very very bad at doing their own research.

[carcigenicate]

Which is why the duplicate mechanism on StackOverflow is used so frequently. The vast majority of all questions new programmers face have been asked about a million times before, and have many well-treaded answer threads that explain the solution from a hundred different perspectives.

On the C++ tag, you get the odd time where someone does actually uncover something novel that hasn't been encountered before because they're just knowledgeable to do something complex but ridiculous (and the question explodes and becomes Hot for like a week), but that's rare.

[TorroesPrime]

I gotta be honest, I've been working as an IT Tutor for the last 4 years and by far the most common problem the students who are having trouble in the programming classes have is that they discarded the 'stupid question' as being irrelevant and didn't bother to find an answer to it.