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

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sat Mar 19 09:39:41 EDT 2016


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 08:09:11AM -0600, Gyro Funch wrote:

> Could 'citation' be an optional entry in setup.py instead?

That matches my proposal. I'm not suggesting it should be a built-in 
built-in, it can be added by site.py like copyright, license, help, quit 
etc.

If Guido has really strong objections to this, I'd be satisfied with it 
being a FAQ entry. But I think an advantage of code over a static FAQ is 
that the code can automatically fill in the version and year.



-- 
Steve


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