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

Even shorter:

print(__file__[:-3])

And name the file print(__file__[:-3]).py (Source)

Edit: actually,

print(__file__)

named print(__file__) works too.

Answer 2

Both

print open(__file__).read()

and anything involving import are not valid quines, because a quine by definition cannot take any input. Reading an external file is considered taking input, and thus a quine cannot read a file -- including itself.

For the record, technically speaking, the shortest possible quine in python is a blank file, but that is sort of cheating too.

Answer 3

I'm just going to leave this here (save as exceptionQuine.py):

    File "exceptionQuine.py", line 1
        File "exceptionQuine.py", line 1
        ^
IndentationError: unexpected indent

Answer 4

I would say:

print open(__file__).read()

Source