Re: hot-backup.py question

2011-01-17 Thread Oftenwrong Soong
On Mon, January 17, 2011 1:34:24 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > ".in" is not anything to do with python specifically; it means that > it is a template file, and that a process (typically a Makefile or > a configure script) will replace some placeholders in that template > with actual values in order t

Re: hot-backup.py question

2011-01-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 17, 2011, at 13:34, Oftenwrong Soong wrote: > Why is the file called hot-backup.py.in and not simply hot-backup-py? Does > the > ".in" indicate that this is an include file for a larger Python script > somewhere? (I'm asking because I do not know Python.) ".in" is not anything to do wi