ds-backup.py - confusion

[Ivan Krstić]

On May 1, 2008, at 2:57 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> I'm no Python wiz (that's well known ;-) ) but I can't get
> ds-backup.py to do anything for me... :-/ Hopefully these questions
> are not too clueless...

The line that executes write_index_since is commented out. You'll want  
to uncomment it.

> That strange (for me) way of trying to trigger some code as
> "main" function by testing for __main__ at the bottom is... well...
> strange!

It's idiomatic Python.

> - Are the "error classes" defined at the top empty? Can we just error
> out with classic error codes that can be handled by callers? (AFAICT
> throwing exceptions like that forces our hand into calling this via
> Python to get decent error handling - good ol' error codes will work
> with callers regardless of language or colour of skin).

It was written to be used as a Python library, only incidentally  
providing some CLI functionality. If you want it to be mostly  
standalone, you can certainly replace the error handling code to  
sys.exit() with a particular error code.

I'll see if I can get you the server-side code, which I should have  
lying around.

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