[tor-dev] Making microdescriptor tarballs available on metrics.tpo

[Damian Johnson]

> Damian, can you try to parse these descriptors using stem, to see if the
> descriptor annotations are correct and if stem can parse them without
> issues?

Hi Karsten, sorry about the delay! Yup, stem parses them just fine
(though processing compressed tarballs still takes an unpleasantly
long time)...


% du -h microdescs-2014-01.tar.bz2
1.8M    microdescs-2014-01.tar.bz2


% cat parse.py
from stem.descriptor.reader import DescriptorReader

counter = 0

with DescriptorReader(["microdescs-2014-01.tar.bz2"]) as reader:
  for desc in reader:
    counter += 1

print "Found %i microdescriptors" % counter


% time python parse.py
Found 14999 microdescriptors

real    67m15.022s
user    65m50.259s
sys    1m13.717s


Cheers! -Damian