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

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Mar 17 2016, Ethan Furman <ethan-gcWI5d7PMXnvaiG9KC9N7Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 03/17/2016 01:32 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>
>> One way to think about it is that providing a preferred citation is
>> useful for folks who want to cite, and folks who don't want to cite
>> will ignore it.
>
> I would also think that citing the software increases the ease of
> duplicating the results.

Really? What kind of citation that you have in mind that would help more
than "...we used a Python program to do [bla]..." somewhere in the
paper?


Best,
-Nikolaus

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