In article <mailman.2541.1361884843.2939.python-l...@python.org>, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are some issues with the Googleability of the Python docs at the > moment. It's much easier to find the official page of PHP's docs than > Python's. Trouble is, the official page of PHP docs is a lot less > helpful... like he says, it's in some cases flat-out wrong. And then > you go read the comments underneath in the hope of learning what you > need to know... and you find a pile of junk even worse than the main > docs, but with the occasional useful gem so you can't dismiss it out > of hand. (But it's buried among loads of code whose primary purpose is > to explain why there's so much bad PHP code out there.) Having lived through a year of PHP hell, I've developed a theory about the PHP ecosystem (i.e. docs, forums, user community, etc) vs. the Python ecosystem. When people ask PHP questions, the questions tend to be phrased as "what do I type to get X", and the answers come back that way too. The forums are full of, "I had the same problem. Somebody told me to do this. I don't really understand it, but it worked for me and maybe it'll work for you too". The Python ecosystem is much more about understanding what's actually happening. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
