Source Code is the output in Python

Question

My friend gave me a challenge where the code is the same as the one in the output in python 3

I tried something like this :

input("")

Then you would type

input("")

into the shell.... but I assume the question is asking for it without user interactions. Thanks

This is a really vague and unhelpful question, can you provide some more details or an example. Is the challenge to have the code print a string of the source code to the console? — James Lingham, May 17 '18 at 18:31
I think you're describing a [*quine*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)), which should help you find examples yourself. — jonrsharpe, May 17 '18 at 18:33
Possible duplicate of [shortest python quine?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6223285/shortest-python-quine) — Olivier Melançon, May 17 '18 at 18:40

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 17 '18 at 18:34

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I suspect what you are talking about is a quine.

a Simple quine in python would be

s = r"print 's = r\"{0}\"'.format(s), '\n', s" 
print 's = r\"{0}\"'.format(s), '\n', s

answered May 17 '18 at 18:34

Snark

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 17 '18 at 18:33

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What you are looking for is called a quine.

In essence, a quine is a program which prints its own source code.

See this answer for some examples.

answered May 17 '18 at 18:33

Ziyad Edher

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