Academic citation of Python

[Rich Webb]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:01:12 +0100, Mark Lawrence
<breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>On 16/06/2012 04:24, Mark Livingstone wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I wish to properly cite Python in an academic paper I am writing.
>>
>> Is there a preferred document etc to cite?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> MArkL
>
>The main website www.python.org and possibly the sites for Jython, 
>IronPython and PyPY?

He's probably looking for an IEC or ANSI standard, like "Information
technology — Programming languages — C  INCITS/ISO/IEC 9899-2011[2012]
(ISO/IEC 9899-2011, IDT)". I don't think URLs qualify as standards
documents.

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Rich Webb     Norfolk, VA