Academic citation for Python

[Peter Hansen]

Ross Lazarus wrote:
> 
> How should the Python language be cited in an academic publication?

Doesn't "to cite" mean simply to acknowledge a source of information?

I don't think you can "cite" a language.  Maybe specific facts about
the language, drawn from the "literature" (e.g. www.python.org), but
not "the language" itself.

Or are you trying to refer to the _source_ of the language, as in
where it comes from?

-Peter