Fun, isn't it

Here is printself.py:

s="""print '''s=%s%s%s
%s'''%('"'*3,s,'"'*3,s)"""
print '''s=%s%s%s
%s'''%('"'*3,s,'"'*3,s)

And this is just a one way to use it:

$ python printself.py | python | python | python | python | python | python | python | python
s="""print '''s=%s%s%s
%s'''%('"'*3,s,'"'*3,s)"""
print '''s=%s%s%s
%s'''%('"'*3,s,'"'*3,s)

Of course, you are free to choose your own way... :)

Someone might wonder, is this the shortest self-printing Python program. Well, it is not. The shortest one is just a bit boring.

$ touch shortest-one.py
$ ls -l shortest-one.py 
-rw-r--r-- 1 ask ask 0 2006-11-02 00:04 shortest-one.py
$ python shortest-one.py 
$ python shortest-one.py | python | python | python | python | python | python | python | python
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