"Arnaud Delobelle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | An earlier post today got me thinking about "quines" (programs that | output themselves) in Python. I tried to find some on the web but | didn't find many ([1]). In particular I didn't find any that | corresponded to my instinctive (LISP-induced, probably) criterion: ... | I'd like to know if anyone on the list has indulged in this time- | bending/mind-wasting activity before. If so, it would be nice to | create a list of such expressions.
Some years ago there was a substantial thread on this, (Shortest Self-Reproducing Programs, or some such) including a fairly long one from me that gave several 'shortest' (depending of definition and input method). It included a Python tranlation of at least one standard Lisp version. I presume you could find it on groups.google Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
