shortest python quine?

Question

_=\'_=%r;print _%%_\';print _%_

Is this the shortest possible python quine, or can it be done better? This one seems to improve on all the entrie

Answer 1

I am strictly against your solution.

The formatting prarameter % is definitively a too advanced high level language function. If such constructs are allowed, I would say, that import must be allowed as well. Then I can construct a shorter Quine by introducing some other high level language construct (which, BTW is much less powerful than the % function, so it is less advanced):

Here is a Unix shell script creating such a quine.py file and checking it really works:

echo 'import x' > quine.py
echo "print 'import x'" > x.py
python quine.py | cmp - quine.py; echo $?

outputs 0

Yes, that's cheating, like using %. Sorry.