On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:19:35 -0700 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. > > You'll want to check out the duecredit project: > https://github.com/duecredit/duecredit > One of the things they've thought about is the ability to track > citation information at a more fine-grained way than per-package – for > example, there might be a paper that should be cited by anyone who > calls a particular method (or even passes a specific argument to some > specific method, when that turns on some fancy algorithm). > > The R world also has some prior art -- in particular I know they have > citations as part of the standard metadata in every package. > > I'd actually like to see a more general solution that isn't restricted > to any one language, because multi-language analysis pipelines are > very common.
Perhaps a dedicated CPU instruction? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/