On 28 June 2018 at 01:19, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Andrei Kucharavy > <andrei.kuchar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To remediate to that situation, I suggest a __citation__ method > associated > > to each package installation and import. Called from the __main__, > > __citation__() would scan __citation__ of all imported packages and > return > > the list of all relevant top-level citations associated to the packages. > > > > As a scientific package developer working in academia, the problem is > quite > > serious, and the solution seems relatively straightforward. > > > > What does Python core team think about addition and long-term > maintenance of > > such a feature to the import and setup mechanisms? What do other users > and > > scientific package developers think of such a mechanism for citations > > retrieval? > > This is indeed a serious problem. I suspect python-ideas isn't the > best venue for addressing it though – there's nothing here that needs > changes to the Python interpreter itself (I think), and the people who > understand this problem the best and who are most affected by it, > mostly aren't here. >
I actually think the opposite. If this is not fixed in a PEP it will stay in the current state. Writing a PEP (and officially accepting it) for this purpose will give a signal that it is a standard practice
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