Academic citation for Python

[Peter Hansen]

David Eppstein wrote:
> 
> ... I can imagine situations in which I'm
> writing an academic paper, and want to use Python to describe an
> algorithm or something, but don't trust my audience to all know Python.
> So, I'd say that my algorithm was written in Python [1], where the
> numbered reference points to somewhere people could go to learn what
> Python is.  Is there a canonical source of information or should one
> just pick one of the intro to Python programming books?

http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/ref.html

Or just point them to www.python.org and let the intelligent readers
figure out where to go from there.

-Peter