[Tutor] Providing Solutions for all the Common Questions

[Calvin Spealman]

There was a discussion in the #python channel over at freenode about the
common questions we seem to field daily. These often revolve around problems
a lot of people need solutions for, and for which we have specific answers
to we always give. A lot of times this leads to teeth grinding as we try to
convince people about our advice. Why else are they asking if they then
argue with the answers they get? This takes a lot of time and energy, so a
number of us are starting a project to produce tutorials, guides,
and explanations to back up a lot of these solutions.
For example, a lot of people look to write an irc bot when they learn
Python, and often they either plan or are suggested to use Twisted. A
tutorial specifically for this need is being written.

We've decided to come here to organize this, as it seems to fit.

So there are some organizational issues to approach. I thought AppEngine
would be a good place to host everything, so I've already registered
pythonguides.appspot.com and plan to throw up a basic Wiki to start. Going
forward there are some things I want to implement there to support our
specific needs. For now, its just a free host.

One other initial need is to collect the problems we need to provide our
solutions for. So, what do we people ask over and over?

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