Just a side note to your "will probably be answered with 20 SO posts": I am currently going through Learn Python the Hard Way and at the end of one exercise I

Just a side note to your "will probably be answered with 20 SO posts": I am currently going through Learn Python the Hard Way and at the end of one exercise I was doing the extra credit stuff (research online all python formatting characters) and typed in the question verbatim, one of the top answers was from SO, went there to check it out and one of the first answers was: "So you are going through Learn python the Hard Way and are to lazy to find the answer" I mean, I understand some of what that person was trying to say, there is some basic etiquette you should follow when asking questions online, but I am very sure a beginner would not know it. And the question wasn't even "Tell me all the python formatting characters" it was asking where to find a list of them. Another answer did point them to the python docs, but I felt that whoever asked the question would be hesitant about using SO again when they have another problem, which is a shame.