How do you go about reading language documentation?

A common piece of advice given to understand and write code is to read the documentation or library. However, when I try to get started, there's a lot of information to get through and I don't know where to navigate to. Another related question is, is it better to read through the documentation to get the gist of the language for example python, or to refer back to whilst writing code?

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