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This is the simplest model of a quine (a program that prints itself) I could think of in English: «print this followed by itself in quotes: "print this followed by itself in quotes:"». My first try at making this in Python was a little less elegant: «print (lambda x: x + '(' + repr(x) +')')("print (lambda x: x + '(' + repr(x) +')')")» Then I rea…
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print (lambda x: x + str((x,)))('print (lambda x: x + str((x,)))',)
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yes, that code is for Python 2, @bsmagic. For Python 3, here's a try that's a little less elegant, but works:

print((lambda x: x + str((x,)) + ")")('print((lambda x: x + str((x,)) + ")")',))

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