Citing Python

[Terry Reedy]

"Andrew Wilkinson" <ajw140NO at SPAMyork.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:ca4nbn$s6a$1 at pump1.york.ac.uk...
> Has anyone out there cited Python in a paper, if so how did you do it? Is
> there a published paper by Guido van Rossum (or someone similarly
important
> to the project) that is suitable for this?
>
> Currently I'm just citing http://www.python.org, but I'm not too happy
with
> that.

I would cite the reference manual which defines the language, and others
have posted that they have done so.  I believe that this is a pretty
standard way to cite a language.  The exact format depends where your paper
is published.

Terry J. Reedy