On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 9:45 AM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > .. > There's absolutely nothing in the idea that requires a change in Python, > and Python developers or users are not, as such, the relevant experts. >
This is not entirely true. If some variant of __citation__ is endorsed by the community, I would expect that pydoc would extract this information to fill an appropriate section in the documentation page. Note that pydoc already treats a number of dunder variables specially: '__author__', '__credits__', and '__version__' are a few that come to mind, so I don't think the threshold for adding one more should be too high. On the other hand, maybe '__author__', '__credits__', and '__citation__' should be merged in one structured variable (a dict?) with format designed with some extendability in mind.
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