24 May 16 16:10, you wrote to me:

 ml> to handle pkts from points, add the following above your thunderbirds
 ml> comment...

pkthdr.origpoint & destpoint should work fine?

 ml> ===== anip =====
 ml>   # if orignet is 65535, use auxnet

 ml>   if pkthdr.orignet == 65535:
 ml>     pkthdr.orignet = pkthdr.auxnet
 ml> ===== snip =====

Hmm, ok. I'm not sure what software uses this.

Delving into the HPT source, it has:

  if (header->origAddr.net == 65535) {
          if (header->origAddr.point) header->origAddr.net = header->auxNet;
          else header->origAddr.net = header->destAddr.net; /*  not in FSC ! */
  }

which in my Python code would translate to:

  if pkthdr.orignet == 65535:
    if pkthdr.origpoint != 0:
      pkthdr.orignet = pkthdr.auxnet
    else:
      pkthdr.orignet = pkthdr.destnet

I trust HPT is doing the correct thing here but it's pretty weird-looking.

HPT never sets the auxnet field to non-zero anywhere, though. Maybe some
older software does.

 ml> i might mess around with it and see what can be done to add the other
 ml> two type 2 formats... no sure, though... am kinda interested in python
 ml> for several projects that have python engines in them... i think,
 ml> though, that they're doing python3...

Well Python 2 & 3 aren't hugely different.

The 2to3 program included with Python will convert my code to 3.x syntax.

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