Citing Python

[David Eppstein]

In article <ca4nbn$s6a$1 at pump1.york.ac.uk>,
 Andrew Wilkinson <ajw140NO at SPAMyork.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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've done it a couple times.  When I do, I just cite
G. van Rossum et al., Python Language Website, http://www.python.org/.
For more specific ideas within Python it may make sense to cite one of 
the PEP's, which I think are just like tech reports.

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science