http://stackoverflow.com/ This is well known. Most software developers know this site. It's fun and very usefull.

http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/ This is unknown. Few people write there, low traffic, few questions and answers.

If you are a new comer I can't know in advance which site is the correct one.

You have a use case, but no clue how to solve this.

Maybe you need several hours of coding or you just need to install some magic library do_magic_for_you and you just need a single line of source code to get your use case solved.

Again, if you a new comer you just have a question - no strategy and that's good.

I maintain this simple list to underline my argumentation that softwarerecs should be joined into stackoverflow.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3521692/how-can-i-access-oracle-from-python How can I access Oracle from Python?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43367355/translate-unicode-to-ascii-if-po Translate Unicode to ascii. The matching term is "Homoglyph"

http://stackoverflow.com/a/44052890/633961 I was not aware of the library "requests-mock".

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50170588/list-dependencies-of-python-wheel-file

https://stackoverflow.com/a/50690735/633961 Python module “trace”: file path missing