[Python-ideas] Add citation() to site.py

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> I would also think that citing the software increases the ease of
> duplicating the results.
>

If that's the intention, citation() should include enough details to
ensure this. There's been talk of changing the default PRNG, so that
kind of thing would have to be identifiable (eg if the citation says
"CPython 3.6.1" and it's known that the PRNG changed in 3.6, people
will be able to understand why the results differ on 3.5). Probably
sys.version will have enough info for that.

ChrisA