How to ask smart questions

[Ofnuts]

It occurs to me that the examples in the How to ask smart questions help page are completely outlandish for most people posting here (electronics? Linux kernel? Compilation? LOL Whut?).

A better exemple would be:

I get errors.

vs:

My code is:

x=None
print len(x)

and I get:

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()

Finding a better typical source code and related error left as an exercise to the community :)






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[snippsat]

It's a little as the same Please use code tags thread.
There is no solution for this,
there will be post with bad question and no code tag.

I agree that we could modify and simplify the content(to much text no one read all that),
and specify it more against Python errors as you suggests.

[metulburr]

yeah its taken straight from the source
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-quest...l#symptoms

ill update it.

EDIT:
updated.

[snippsat]

I have changed error and rearranged text,code example work Python 2/3 and has PEP-8 space
How dos it look now?
How to ask Smart Questions

[metulburr]

better, except the improper english is driving me nuts....

I am getting IndexError?
to
I am getting an IndexError?

[snippsat]

better, except the improper english is driving me nuts....

Agree changed.

[Larz60+]

Like it

[Kebap]

Bad Question:
I am getting an IndexError?

More like "My code does not work!!?"

Also, in Smart Question, would be nice to add "I am trying to do X" section, because newbies oftentimes try a wrong tool, and won't get much help if we explain, how to better use this wrong tool instead of changing to a better tool for their goal