Fredrik Lundh wrote: > "Blackbird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Slightly OT, but here is a crazy little program that shows the power >> of using raw strings: >> >> s=r'print "s=r\'%s\'\n%s"%(s,s)' >> print "s=r\'%s\'\n%s"%(s,s) >> >> When run, this program will print an exact copy of itself. > > I'm not sure what the raw strings brings to the table, though; it's > not like you need them to write a "self-replicating" python program: > > http://miscoranda.com/37
Great link! I wasn't aware that this was called a Quine. This one is great: _='_=%r;print _%%_';print _%_ When I hacked down the two lines, I didnt see that assigning the variable to the beginning of the program, instead of the end, essentially gets rid of literals in the actual print statement. And now I also learned about %r. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
