Academic citation of Python

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/15/2012 11:24 PM, 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?

At present, I would use something like

Rossum, Guido van, et al, *The Python Language Reference*, Python 
Software Foundation; http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/index.html

with punctuation adjusted to your target. That url should continue to 
work as new versions are released. If you want to cite a particular 
version, http://docs.python.org/release/3.2/reference/index.html with 
3.2 replaced by x.y as appropriate.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy