Academic citation of Python

[Alec Taylor]

I think it's more like when you see articles with a passage like:


The C programming language[1] or the C++ programming language[2] are both
> examples of...
>


Are both easy to find the proper reference for.

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>wrote:

> Mark Livingstone <livingstonemark at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I wish to properly cite Python in an academic paper I am writing.
> >
> > Is there a preferred document etc to cite?
>
> I think you're best positioned to answer that. Python isn't a document,
> so what specifically are you citing it as?
>
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