[Python-ideas] Add a __cite__ method for scientific packages

[Ivan Levkivskyi]

On 28 June 2018 at 01:19, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Andrei Kucharavy
> <andrei.kucharavy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To remediate to that situation, I suggest a __citation__ method
> associated
> > to each package installation and import. Called from the __main__,
> > __citation__() would scan __citation__ of all imported packages and
> return
> > the list of all relevant top-level citations associated to the packages.
> >
> > As a scientific package developer working in academia, the problem is
> quite
> > serious, and the solution seems relatively straightforward.
> >
> > What does Python core team think about addition and long-term
> maintenance of
> > such a feature to the import and setup mechanisms? What do other users
> and
> > scientific package developers think of such a mechanism for citations
> > retrieval?
>
> This is indeed a serious problem. I suspect python-ideas isn't the
> best venue for addressing it though – there's nothing here that needs
> changes to the Python interpreter itself (I think), and the people who
> understand this problem the best and who are most affected by it,
> mostly aren't here.
>

I actually think the opposite. If this is not fixed in a PEP it will stay
in the current state.
Writing a PEP (and officially accepting it) for this purpose will give a
signal that it is a standard practice
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