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How To Write A Quine

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45 pointschaosmachine4 comments

Couldn't you write a program that loads its own file and prints out each line

  __main__():
    prgm = file("prgm.py")
    for line in prgm:
       print(line)

or does that break the rules?

Like you surmised - that breaks the rules.

And since a quine is generally "just" a brain-teaser rather then a useful tool - where's the fun in breaking the rules? :)

    File "pyquine.py", line 1
      File "pyquine.py", line 1
      ^
  IndentationError: unexpected indent

I did not write this quine.

In Python the empty file is also a Quine.