Skip to main content
PyCon US is happening May 14th-22nd in Pittsburgh, PA USA.  Learn more

AskSO - StackOverflow Python Question Assistant

Project description

Join the chat at https://gitter.im/alexmojaki/askso Build Status

This is a tool to help you construct a good question about Python on StackOverflow, although it can help with other forums too. It assumes that you’ve written some code that isn’t behaving correctly. This should not be a problem, as StackOverflow generally expects you to show that you’ve tried something.

To install: run pip install ask-so in a terminal. You will need pip, which you can install with the instructions here. On Linux/OSX you may need to run sudo pip install ask-so. If nothing works, you can download the source, unzip it, and run python setup.py inside.

To use:

  1. (Optional, best if your question involves files) Navigate to the location of your code in a terminal.

  2. Run askso in the terminal. If that doesn’t work: python -m askso. This will start a server.

  3. Visit http://localhost:5000/ in your browser.

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page