Damian's Dev Blog

It was great meeting everyone in Reykjavík! February largely went toward GSoC prep. Thanks to everybody that sent me project ideas!

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This left a lot less time than I’d like for coding. The only noteworthy changes this month were…

• Added a new ‘stem.util.test_tools‘ module for easily running Pyflakes and PEP8 checks.

  Stem, ExitMap, and arm all do these checks as part of their tests so this let them shed quite a bit of boilerplate.

  Want these checks for your own project? It’s easy, so give it a try!

• Stem tutorial example for checking the Tor exits you’re using for your connections.
• Couple new Controller methods for checking where Tor is listening for connections of a given type…

  >>> for listener_type in stem.control.Listener:
  ...   ports = map(str, controller.get_ports(listener_type))
  ...   print "%s ports: %s" % (listener_type, ', '.join(ports))
  ...
  OR ports:
  DIR ports:
  SOCKS ports: 9050
  TRANS ports:
  NATD ports:
  DNS ports:
  CONTROL ports: 2779
  

• Gave Sphinx’s aafig module a try to see if it could improve our API
  overviews…
  • Before
  • After

  In the end I decided against it since this doesn’t add much, and it causes us to render the overview as a svg (so users can’t copy/paste function names).

• Sent Philipp some improvements for ExitMap.