Stem does not allow for overriding of Directory Authorities
Stem does not allow a library to override the Directory Authorities that are hardcoded in it.
A commit that does this is available at https://github.com/tomrittervg/stem/commits/override-authorities I have not tested it extensively, but usage in DocTor indicates that it seems to work.
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