Re: How to create a script that list itself ?

2006-01-11 Thread Mike Meyer
Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It was pointed out to me that the shortest Python program which produces > itself on stdout is: > -- Which, oddly enough, is also the shortest shell program that produces itself on stdout. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independe

Re: How to create a script that list itself ?

2006-01-11 Thread Tim Roberts
Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Dave Hansen wrote: > >> Stealing from the old C chestnut: >> >> s="s=%c%s%c;print s%%(34,s,34)";print s%(34,s,34) > >Or a bit shorter: > >s='s=%s;print s%%`s`';print s%`s` It was pointed out to me that the shortest Python program which produces itself on

Re: How to create a script that list itself ?

2006-01-10 Thread Duncan Booth
Dave Hansen wrote: > Stealing from the old C chestnut: > > s="s=%c%s%c;print s%%(34,s,34)";print s%(34,s,34) Or a bit shorter: s='s=%s;print s%%`s`';print s%`s` -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to create a script that list itself ?

2006-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
import sys path = os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]) print "Path:%s" % (path) ## If you ran this as a script, This would print the location of where the script itself is running. Hope it helps! Rob -- http://mail.pyt

Re: How to create a script that list itself ?

2006-01-09 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
> But is there a way / a variable that contains the current file in > memory ? yes: import __main__ you can do: import inspect import __main__ print inspect.getsource(__main__) or simply: print open(__file__).read() nsz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to create a script that list itself ?

2006-01-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-01-09, Patrick Allaire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How to create a script that list itself ? This is probably about as close as you're going to get: import sys pring open(sys.argv[0],'r').read() And that isn't 100% reliable. > I would like to

Re: How to create a script that list itself ?

2006-01-09 Thread Dave Hansen
On 9 Jan 2006 10:09:19 -0800 in comp.lang.python, "Patrick Allaire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How to create a script that list itself ? Stealing from the old C chestnut: s="s=%c%s%c;print s%%(34,s,34)";print s%(34,s,34) > >I would like to know, where is

How to create a script that list itself ?

2006-01-09 Thread Patrick Allaire
How to create a script that list itself ? I would like to know, where is the script's code is stored once we start it. I know I can achieve that, using files : print file('myscript.py','rb').read() But is there a way / a variable that contains the current file i