Not at all. Thanks for asking! 🙂️

So I’m guessing the idea is to transfer any conversations better suited to real time chat to the Discord? Or maybe have a sort of parallel community?

Neither, really.
Discord seems like a decent fit for pair programming, mentoring, live chat, et cetera; I hope it will be a useful complementary service for the pythonhelp community

The purpose of the Discord is the same as the purpose of the Lemmy community: To help Python programmers