text: # Script Name	: backup_automater_services.py
  # Author			: Craig Richards
  # Created			: 24th October 2012
  # Last Modified	: 13th February 2016
  # Version			: 1.0.1
  
  # Modifications	: 1.0.1 - Tidy up the comments and syntax
  
  # Description		: This will go through and backup all my automator services workflows
  
  import datetime  # Load the library module
  import os  # Load the library module
  import shutil  # Load the library module
  
  today = datetime.date.today()  # Get Today's date
  todaystr = today.isoformat()  # Format it so we can use the format to create the directory
  
  confdir = os.getenv("my_config")  # Set the variable by getting the value from the OS setting
  dropbox = os.getenv("dropbox")  # Set the variable by getting the value from the OS setting
  conffile = 'services.conf'  # Set the variable as the name of the configuration file
  conffilename = os.path.join(confdir, conffile)  # Set the variable by combining the path and the file name
  sourcedir = os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Services/')  # Source directory of where the scripts are located
  # Combine several settings to create
  destdir = os.path.join(dropbox, "My_backups" + "/" + "Automater_services" + todaystr + "/")
  
  # the destination backup directory
  for file_name in open(conffilename):  # Walk through the configuration file
      fname = file_name.strip()  # Strip out the blank lines from the configuration file
      if fname:  # For the lines that are not blank
          sourcefile = os.path.join(sourcedir, fname)  # Get the name of the source files to backup
          destfile = os.path.join(destdir, fname)  # Get the name of the destination file names
          shutil.copytree(sourcefile, destfile)  # Copy the directories
  