trictionary?

[Randy Bush]

> So I'm going to try to pump you for a little more information here.  Is 
> your goal to count, for each week, how many times it's "full" and how 
> many times it's "not full"?  What do you use the counts for?  What does 
> "full" mean?  Is it always a 0 or 1?  What's the importance of the 
> output formatting?

'full' is boolean.  it says whether a particular bgp announcement
was for the entire ip address allocation, or is a longer prefix.
e.g., if an allocation was for 666.42.0.0/16 and we heard a bgp
announcement for 666.42.1.0/24 that is !full, while an announcement
for the prefix 666.42.0.0/16 is full.

you asked :-)

>      for start, end, AS, full in heard:
>          week = int((start-startDate)/aWeek)
>          if week in bin:
>              bin[week][not full] += 1
>          else:
>              # I'm assuming "full" takes the values 0 or 1
>              # but if not, you can coerce it with bool()
>              bin[week] = [full, int(not full)]

hmmm.  this also reads well.

as an old pascal and modula-2 bondage and discipline type, i gotta
say is it a breath of fresh air to be in a language and community
which care about how code reads more than how clever it is.

randy