http://mf34jlghauz5pxjcmdymdqbe5pva4v24logeys446tdrgd5lpsrocmqd.onion/tutorials/examples/persisting_a_consensus.html
The descriptor_dump file now looks like... network-status-version 3
vote-status consensus
consensus-method 18
valid-after 2014-11-17 23:00:00
fresh-until 2014-11-18 00:00:00
valid-until 2014-11-18 02:00:00
voting-delay 300 300
... etc... You can then read it back with parse_file() ... from stem.descriptor import DocumentHandler , parse_file consensus = next ( parse_file ( ' /tmp/descriptor_dump ' , descriptor_type = ' network-status-consensus-3 1.0 ' ,...