tree 28baa35873eb27ea3704650387f5d4cfd0dc4991
parent 96aef1f909421b61e3404b099deed9c4026338ff
author Michael Walsh <micwalsh@us.ibm.com> 1569622767 -0500
committer George Keishing <gkeishin@in.ibm.com> 1569935052 +0000

wait_for_comm_cycle to wait for uptime

- Modify wait_for_comm_cycle() to wait for uptime to be less than
  elapsed_boot_time.  It will no longer insist that packet_loss reach
  100 and that it then reach 0.
- Modify compare_states() function to evaluate python expressions in
  addition to processing regular expressions.
- Modify get_state to get elapsed_boot_time
- Miscellaneous cleanup:
  - valid_value, etc. no longer needs to be fed var_name.
  - "Description of arguments" syntax was not adhering to standard.
- Changed anchor_state() and strip_anchor_state() to stop reading
  values from state dictionary.  The first goal was to stop using
  the name match_state_value since the function need not presume that
  the dictionary is a match dictionary.

Change-Id: I7d958c7a98ca879949414a20ecbc7cb86204709a
Signed-off-by: Michael Walsh <micwalsh@us.ibm.com>