On 4/20/2021 5:44 PM, dn via Python-list wrote:
Are there reasons why someone might prefer StackOverflow to this list?
For programming questions with testable answers, generally yes. But I sometimes advise SO questioners to redirect questions here when more appropriate.
Advantages include that questions and answers can be searched within a tag, can be commented separately, and can be edited. The latter is important. Web forums that imitate mail lists with indelible sequential postings are not much better.
Are they more to do with the person, or something the Python Community should address?
Not the first, nor the second officially. But many Python Community members already answer python-tagged questions. I specifically monitor python-idle questions. The PSF could set up a imitation site, or perhaps sponsor 'Python Pitstop' on stackexchange, but why bother?
-- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
