If you don't know what a quine is, it is a program or script that's only purpose or function is to print out its own source code.
I was wondering would this be considered a quine?
f = open("quine.py","r"); print f.read()quine.py is the script that this code is in. It does print out itself like a quine would.
A persistant quine perhaps ?
I don't understand what you mean by persistent quine.
The idea struck me a few nights ago before I went to sleep. If it is in fact a quine, its a pretty good one at only 37 bytes.
> I was wondering would this be considered a quine?
No.
Reading from a file renders the problem trivial in nearly all languages.
Some real examples
http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/self_pyth.txt
Awww.... I thought I had one... Oh well lol.
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