But the other half of the time the question descends into chaos. I'm there because the question is the same as I asked, 9/10 the digression is not useful. Als

But the other half of the time the question descends into chaos. I'm there because the question is the same as I asked, 9/10 the digression is not useful. Also, if you suspect that the user is doing something wrong or there is a better approach, a better way to do this is to ask "are you parsing JSON? because Python has a builtin JSON library" instead of "Why would you even want to do this?". I guess what I really want is for people to update the question if it no longer applies because a different question was answered and accepted.