[tor-commits] [stem/master] Citing ticket about negative cell-processed-cells values

[atagar at torproject.org]

commit 97fad7b6f7b6113fdb3e5ca8925224901748a98c
Author: Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org>
Date:   Sun May 13 15:46:58 2012 -0700

    Citing ticket about negative cell-processed-cells values
    
    Comment to explain why we're accepting negative values, and citing the related
    ticket.
---
 stem/descriptor/extrainfo_descriptor.py |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/stem/descriptor/extrainfo_descriptor.py b/stem/descriptor/extrainfo_descriptor.py
index a08d389..1363579 100644
--- a/stem/descriptor/extrainfo_descriptor.py
+++ b/stem/descriptor/extrainfo_descriptor.py
@@ -480,6 +480,11 @@ class ExtraInfoDescriptor(stem.descriptor.Descriptor):
         if value:
           for entry in value.split(","):
             try:
+              # TODO: The description of the values sound like they should
+              # always be positive, but this is not always the case in
+              # practice...
+              # https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5849
+              
               entries.append(float(entry))
             except ValueError:
               if validate: raise ValueError("Non-numeric entry in %s listing: %s" % (keyword, line))