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 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 to transform it into a real usable program. In the case of hot-backup.py.in, the only placeholder seems to be "@SVN_BINDIR@" which occurs twice near the top of the script. If you like, you can bypass the usual process and replace the placeholders with the correct values manually.
