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authorIlya Etingof <etingof@gmail.com>2016-11-03 02:09:22 +0100
committerIlya Etingof <etingof@gmail.com>2016-11-03 02:09:22 +0100
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@@ -214,7 +214,9 @@ type instances. As a Python object it looks like a tuple of
The trailing zero is an indication of MIB object *instance*. Objects
described in MIBs are just declarations, they never contain any data.
-Data is stored in MIB object instances that are addressed by appending
+Data is stored in MIB object instances addressed by appending extra
+information (known as *index*) to MIB object identifiers.
+
For scalar MIB objects index is '0' by convention. The
*ObjectIdentity* class takes indices as its initializers.