It's tangential to the original discussion, but that attitude nearly turned me off of Python entirely when I was first starting. I'd pop onto IRC or a discussio

It's tangential to the original discussion, but that attitude nearly turned me off of Python entirely when I was first starting. I'd pop onto IRC or a discussion community and ask a question about something, explaining that I was new and the most common responses were: 1. Read the docs and figure it out yourself. 2. Why are you doing X? Only an intellectually feeble person would do X -- normal people do Y. 3. That's a waste of time and I'm not going to tell you how to do it because X, Y, and Z.